i need the rest of the question
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I think this is the answer:
Of course, I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn’t even vaguely engaged. The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come East. You can’t stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand, I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.
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B) Because the main idea is usually the first sentence of the first paragraph.