Question

What is the main idea of the following sentence from “After Twenty Years”?


And in the door of the hardware store the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost to absurdity, with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited.

a. The West is at least a thousand miles from the hardware store.
b. The man from the West waited for his old friend to show up.
c. It is absurd to expect to keep a twenty-year-old appointment.
d. Uncertainty can drive a person to wait too long for an old friend.