I can tell from a hat. [He wiggles his fingers, for emphasis.] My specialty is psychometry, the ghost-(metaphorical)-within-the-thing.

[And he does enunciate the parentheses, somehow.

Now, as for this profoundly well-made costume... highly fashionable...]

Ah— ghost party. Their heart was certainly in the right place. Does it feel haunted? Or does it only feel musty?

[Channel the ghost party, Sunny. It's totally doable. Palamedes dusts off the hat and puts it on, to stay in the spirit (zing) of things.]

I should have brought my little girl, but she's too shy for parties. She is a ghost, though.