When the sisters settle down to sleep at the end of paragraph 5:
D) Mary is able to fall sleep, but Margaret cannot because she is thinking of her dead husband.
<h3>What was the state of the two sisters?</h3>
The two sisters in the story who lost their husbands were soaked in deep anguish. When they settled down to sleep, the text tells us that Mary was able to slip into a temporary forgetfulness. By this, the writer must have meant sleep.
However, Margaret was unable to sleep as she kept on thinking about her husband. It was not until later that she heard a knock down the street and went to respond to it.
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