Answer:
The bell was a dummy and not even working.
Explanation:
The short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. The story revolves, as usual, around the mysterious case of murder which Sherlock Holmes and Watson tries to solve.
While examining the room where Ju lia Stoner was killed mysteriously, Holmes and Watson noticed that there was a bell attached along the walls which seems normal, as people use it to summon for anything. But the weird part about this particular bell was that it was<em> "a dummy"</em>, and <em>"it is not even attached to a wire.[. . .] it is fastened to a hook just above where the little opening for the ventilator is."</em> This means that the bell was just a means for something else other than summoning the housekeeper.
The best option would be, In my opinion, option c) which states that they and their spouses can all become friends and joke that their children cannot date each other.
If they have agreed that they and their spouses can be friends , then it means that they have forgiven each other and themselves. As for the second part, the most important term here is ‘jokingly’, which means that they did not mean it to be an iron-clad rule and it may change in the future.
In "Civil Peace" the phrase "happy survival" when it is used as a greeting means that the main goal of everyone one encounters is just to survive, so they're being comedic.
For always in literature, imagery plays a huge role in so many aspects. For instance, it sets the atmosphere, tone, mood, which are all necessary to enable the reader to truly immerse himself/herself in the story. It also establishes characterization (inside and outside). Simply put, imagery builds/paints the story in your mind so that you do not just see it, but you hear it, smell it, taste it, and feel it.
