Question

Which of the following details is a clue predicting the ending of the story? a. “He had driven his great train, loaded with its weight of lives, across the land ten thousand times.” b. “He had known all the grief, the joy, the peril and the labor such a man could know . . . and now . . . he had grown old.” c. “It was all as unfamiliar, as disquieting as a city in a dream, and the perplexity of his spirit increased as he went on.” d. “Yes, this was the house he sought, the place he had passed so many times, the destination he had longed for with such happiness.”