Select the correct text in the passage.
In this excerpt from H. H. Munro's The Open Window," which line reveals the effect that Framton's conversation has on other characters?
She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. To Framton it was all purely
horrible. made a desperate but only partially successful effort t
alk
less ghastly topic; he was conscious that his hostess
was giving him only a fragment of her attention, and her eyes were constantly straying past him to the open window and lawn beyond. I
certainly an unfortunate coincidence that he should have paid his visit on this tragic anniversary.
The doctors agree in ordering me complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in the nature of violent physical
exercise," announced Framton, who laboured under the tolerably widespread delusion that total strangers and chance acquaintances are
hungry for the least detail of one's ailments and Infirmities, their cause d cure. *On the matter of diet they.
n agreement," he
continued
"No
Mrs. Sappleton, in
what Framton was saying,
which only replaced a yawn at the last moment. Then she suddenly brightened into alert attention-but
Here they are at lasti she cried. Just in time for tea, and dont they look as if they were muddy up to the eyest"*
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