Read these lines: "I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in reply only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick on account of the dampness of the catacombs. I hastened to make an end of my labour." The reason the speaker gives for feeling sick invites a reader to

1. The sickness arrives at one exact moment, straight after the only reply he gets is the jingling of the bells. 2. He has walked through the same damp air for hours without complaint, so the damp is not new. 3. Blaming the damp at that moment attaches a physical cause to a feeling that clearly has a human one. 4. A reader who notices the timing is invited to distrust the explanation, option A. 5. Option C expects him to stop, yet the very next thing he does is hurry to finish. _Source: Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado, public domain_