Answer:
Stewards were kitchen staff.
Explanation:
On ships, stewards were typically the staff to prepare and serve meals to passengers. You can infer this by the fact they are the only group remaining in the dining area and are implied to be ship staff by the statement "...they were gossiping about their passengers."
This question is incomplete because the options are missing; here are the options:
Which character trait of Sherlock Holmes does this excerpt from "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle illustrate?
A. His ambitious nature
B. His perfectionist nature
C. His tendency to be cautious
D. His powers of observation
The correct answer is D. His power of observation
Explanation:
In this excerpt, the narrator describes how the detective Sherlock Holmes noticed the stains of mud in the jacket of the woman, and based on this evidence Holmes knew this woman had traveled on a train recently. This discovery requires specialized observation and analysis. Indeed, this shows Sherlock Holmes' power of observation because he was keen enough to notice the smears and then reach a valid conclusion as the woman admits Sherlock's conclusion is true "and came in by the first train to Waterloo."
The one that I think it is that he was bullied because he was Asian-American