THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (A).SOMETIMES THE MOST STRAIGHTFOR-WARD ANSW...

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The correct answer is (A).

Sometimes the most straightfor-

ward answer is the right answer. If you read around the cited

line, you saw that Jane leaves the drawing room and sits in the

window seat behind a curtain. Choice (B) is incorrect because it

only deals with one retirement, or leave taking, her removal

from the drawing room and the people whose demands she

cannot satisfy. Choice (C) might work except that there is no

indication that looking at the book is a retreat into Jane’s

imagination. Indeed, based on the next paragraph, Jane is very

much present to her surroundings. Choice (D) may sound poetic

but is incorrect. The description of the weather occurs in the

next paragraph. Choice (E) is incorrect for the same reason as

choice (B).