If you were writing that a theme of "The Cactus" is that
"appearance is often different
from reality," which passage
would give the best support?
A. She...invested him with
a...supernatural number of...attributes...
and he had absorbed the oblation.
B. Why had it ended thus? There had
been no quarrel between them, nothing--
C. For the thousandth time he
remarshalled in his mind the events of
those last few days