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Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Small indeed was my appetite. This inexplicable incident, this reversal of my previous experience, seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment; and I began to reflect more seriously than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my double existence.

What conclusion can the reader draw about Dr. Jekyll from this excerpt?

He is a spiritual man devoted to his religious studies.
He is concerned about the course of his experiment.
He is worried about the financial responsibility of a double life.
He is afraid of being exposed as a fraud.

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He is concerned about the course of his experiment.

The passage shows Jekyll reflecting seriously on the "issues and possibilities of my double existence," indicating worry about the consequences and direction of his experiment, not religion, finances, or primarily fear of exposure as a fraud.