Question

1 point

Which passage best explains why the narrator was certain there would be
no witnesses? *
"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."
"His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a
gesticulation I did not understand."
"We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending
again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux
rather to glow than flame."
"There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of
O the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them
explicit orders not to stir from the house."

Answer 1

"There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them

explicit orders not to stir from the house."

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct option is D because he not only stated that there would no one at home but he also explained why they were not around because the attendants absconded to "make merry in honor of the time" and he had explicitly asked them not to move from the house, that he would be home by morning but they had disobeyed.