Is Beloved Back?

"A fully dressed woman walked out of the water. She barely gained the dry bank of the stream before she sat down and leaned against a mulberry tree. All day and all night she sat there, her head resting on the trunk in a position abandoned enough to crack the brim in her straw hat. Everything hurt but her lungs most of all. Sopping wet and breathing shallow she spent those hours trying to negotiate the weight of her eyelids." pg 60

After Paul D scares the ghost off from the house at 124, this is the first time Beloved has been mentioned. However, now she is a human being rather than a spiritual figure. Beloved being "sopping wet" symbolizes the rebirth of her character like when a baby is delivered from its mother's womb. If Sethe's daughter, Beloved, would have been alive she would have been nineteen years old just like the young lady lying against the stump in front of the house. It is later believed in the story that the human figure of Beloved is actually Sethe's deceased daughter coming back to life.