Question

"She produced the key from her pocket and opened the trunk in my presence - this was a great honor for me, for the venerable trunk had never before been opened in the presence of another person - and immediately there wafted out of it a strange yet familiar scent, a scent of age, a smell of the distant past, of years which have been folded up and stored away." Which word/phrase helps to create the mood in this passage? * pocket for me trunk great honor

Answer 1

a scent of age