Viola’s specter thankfully released Dani in place of Flora’s self-sacrifice, but Dani soon made a nick-of-time rescue with the “It’s you, it’s me, it’s us” line, thus inviting Viola’s spirt inside herself and cementing that doomed connection.
For another stretch of silver lining here, at least Dani’s act broke the ghostly curse on Bly Manor.
Dani’s fate was thrown into question at the end of Episode 7, when she was frightfully caught by the Lady of the Lake during the ghoul’s nightly constitutional.
And then her fate remained a mystery throughout the historical backstory of “The Romance of Certain Older Clothes,” which featured the episode-long cameo from Hill House’s Kate Siegel that explained the Lady’s hyper-cyclical origin story.