<span>Arsat left his brother behind because he was afraid his pursuers would catch them. As he pushed his boat away from the shoreline he saw his brother running towards him being pursued by their enemies. His brother tripped and fell and the enemy was up him, he called out to his brother but Arasat left and sacrificed his brother in order to save the woman he loved.</span>
The statement that best explains the situational irony that occurs in the passage the storyteller is the aunt does not expect the bachelor to tell a story but he does.