Answer:
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is not the first time that we have gathered together under this hospitable roof, around this hospitable board. It is not the first time that we have been the recipients - or perhaps, I had better say, the victims - of the hospitality of certain good ladies.
Explanation:
The Dead is a short story wrote by James Joyce in 1914.
This is a paragraph of a dialogue in the text, and the order is a. b. c. and d.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is not the first time that we have gathered together under this hospitable roof, around this hospitable board. It is not the first time that we have been the recipients - or perhaps, I had better say, the victims - of the hospitality of certain good ladies.
You would have used B. context clues. The reasoning for this is you have used other words in the sentence and around this word to help you figure the meaning.
