What tone does Henry Gilbert create in lines 11-24 of the excerpt of King Arthur’s Knights?
Then he beat at the door and called, but none responded, and for wrath he could have dashed the door down, but it was too
stout, and he had no weapon; for his arms had been taken from him.
When it was dark, suddenly it seemed to Sir Lancelot that the room smelled foul, as if he had been carried into the midst
of the quaking marsh, and was sunk deep in the slime and weeds of a pool. Then, through the arrow-slit, he saw many strange
lights come, dim and blue like the wild lights that dance and flit over the lonely marshes by night; but that which made him
marvel was that these lights were two together, as if they were the eyes of evil things. And they came up to him with a breath
that was cold and dank, and they seemed to peer into his face, but he could see naught of their bodies. The hair upon his head
rose, and his skin went cold. They pressed all about him, and to defend himself he struck at the eyes, but his blows beat only
the air. Then suddenly Sir Lancelot felt sharp pains, as if small keen knives had been thrust into his flesh at many places. The
stabs increased in number and in pain, and Sir Lancelot beat about himself and ran to and fro in the narrow chamber to escape
the evil eyes and the stabs, but it was in vain, and thus all night in much misery he suffered. When for sheer weariness he lay
down and tried to close his eyes, the evil things would not let him, but ever they tore at him and stabbed him. He was in
anguish of mind more than he could bear, and for all his thought he could not think of any way to fight against the evil
powers which followed and tortured him wherever he ran.
A. horror and alarm
B. peace and joy
C. resignation and defeat
D. excitement and anticipation
Is it A?