Sally O'Hara
Background
Sally O'Hara is a resident of Kent, England. Her mother is Mrs. O'Hara and she has a sister who recently was married. Sally's godfather is Edwin.
During the events of Dead of Night (1945) played by Sally Ann Howes
Eliot Foley introduces Walter Craig to the other guests including Mrs. Foley, Joan Cortland, Dr. Van Straaten, Hugh Grainger, and Sally. As Walter sits down, he at first thinks he is dreaming. He walks up to Dr. Van Straaten and knows he is a psychiatrist, and says he has seen him in his dreams. Dr. Van Straaten thinks Walter must have seen him in the newspapers. Walter continues that everyone in the room has been in his dreams. They think maybe they also saw them in newspapers or around town, but he says that in his dream, they are all together in the same room they are in. He says there is a sixth person that comes in his dream later who he describes. Mrs. Foley and Eliot tell him that they believe him as does everyone else except for Dr. Van Straaten. Hugh then starts his story on the supernatural.
Hugh tells the others that if he hadn't seen the Hearse Driver, he would have gotten on the bus. Dr. Van Straaten suggests that Hugh was still struggling with the psychological stress from his crash, which made him reluctant to go inside any vehicle. Joyce arrives at the house ans asks Hugh to pay her cab fair as she doesn't have any money. Dr. Van Straaten still doesn't believe and when Walter sees him tapping his glasses, he remembers that in his dreams, Dr. Van Straaten breaks his glasses and then the room goes dark, Eliot mentions the death of a man and then his dream turns into a nightmare. Sally is the next to tell her story of strange occurrence.
A year ago during Christmas time in Somerset, she was asked to go to a party put on by Mrs. Watson. Jimmy Watson is also at the party and he suggests they play sardines which is a sort of hide-and-go-seek. Sally is chosen as the one to hide and she goes upstairs. Jimmy finds her first and tells her that everyone that finds her packs into the hiding place. She tells him that she is cold and Jimmy tells her that it is a supernatural cold and the house is haunted. They go to a new hiding place somewhere in the attic and Jimmy tells her about a murder in 1860 that was committed in the house. Jimmy tries to kiss Sally and she runs away. She enters a room and hears a noise and sees Francis Kent whimpering on a chair. He tells her that she is in his and his sister Constance's bedroom. He tells her that Constance hates him and has told him that she would like to kill him. Sally puts Francis to bed and then hears people calling her name. She runs to where the other kids are and then tells Mrs. Watson about Francis. Jimmy then tells her that Francis was the one murdered in the house by Constance.
Dr. Van Straaten doesn't believe Sally's story and Joyce tells everyone that when she was a nurse there were times when unexplained things happened. Walter says that things in his dreams sometimes change and that in one instance he hit Sally, but not this time as she will be leaving soon. Mrs. O'Hara arrives at the house and takes her away to go to her godfather Edwin's birthday party.