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Read these lines from a letter she left behind: "You really did it very well. You took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I began to think. I had been warned against you months ago." What can be inferred about the writer?
AShe had never once heard of the man before
BShe guessed the trick only after it had worked
CShe had planned the alarm of fire from the start
DShe had been fooled and never worked it out
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. She guessed the trick only after it had worked
1. She says she had no suspicion until after the alarm of fire, so the trick worked while it was happening.
2. She then says she began to think once she realised she had given herself away.
3. Working it out afterwards is exactly what the second choice describes.
4. The last choice fails because she plainly did work it out, which is why the letter exists.
5. The first choice is contradicted by her saying she had been warned against him months before.
6. The third choice reverses who set the trap, since she calls herself the one taken in.
_Source: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), A Scandal in Bohemia_
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