Which line from the text supports your answer to number 16?
A. “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me.”
B. “I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon
the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out – ‘Who’s there?’”
C. “And this I did for seven long nights – every night just at midnight – but I found the
eye always closed’ and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man
who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.”
D. “Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror.”