Question

Select the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado."

"Come," I said, with decision, "we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is Luchesi--"

Answer 1

I took the test.

A.) is incorrect.

D.) is incorrect.

C.) I can't see how that could be the answer

So, B.) seems like the most reasonable answer.

Answer 2

He is perhaps showing slight jealousy - reminiscence, and remorse. (I have not read this, so don't know the names to use.)
The man who is speaking feels almost as though the ill man is a newer him, that his own death would be of no upset to anyone.