Father's ghost

Louise finally managed to get little Felicia to fall asleep.
Up until then, her daughter had barely slept at all over the past few months. As soon as her head touched the pillow, she would immediately jump up screaming.
Every time, Louise would rush over to her little girl and ask the same question:
“What did you dream about, sweetheart?”
Felicia would snuggle up to her mother and reply:
“I wasn’t sleeping. I saw our dad.”
Louise would stroke her daughter’s head and say, with tears in her eyes:
“Sweetheart, your father died over a year ago. He won’t be coming back to us. Let’s pray for him.”
But Felicia stubbornly shook her head and said:
“Before he died, he promised me he’d come back and always watch over our family!”
Louisa held her daughter close to her chest and whispered:
“Calm down, sweetheart, everything will be all right…”
And today, Felicia suddenly said to her mother:
“Take my chair outside. I’ll fall asleep and meet my father.”
Louisa didn’t argue with her little girl; she carried the chair with a pillow outside and sat her daughter down in it.
To her surprise, Felicia instantly fell into a deep, peaceful sleep.
Unable to believe her eyes, the mother leaned over her daughter and heard her steady breathing.
She calmed down and kissed the sleeping Felicia on the forehead.
Suddenly, she heard a rustling near the fence, as if someone were sneaking up, trying to go unnoticed.
Louise looked around but saw no one.
She looked at Felicia again.
Felicia smiled ever so slightly and said, without opening her eyes:
“You won’t see him. No one will see him except me. Dad came back, just as he promised. Now I’m not afraid.”