Read this sentence from the story.

The lights on the avenue blurred, twinkled, blurred.

Which inference does this sentence best support?

A.
Other people are going on with their lives around Mary.

B.
Their relationship has been reignited after all of these years.

C.
The new hope Mary found when she saw Bill is disappearing.

D.
Life is guiding Mary in an exciting, new direction.

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
C. The new hope Mary found when she saw Bill is disappearing.

Reason: the repeated "blurred" imagery suggests a loss of clarity or fading feeling—something that briefly brightens ("twinkled") then fades again, which best matches hope that is slipping away.