We gathered driftwood, shells, rocks, and we bought sand, glass, and paint for the sculpture.
The underlined phrases are as follows:
1. Marriage.
2. Time's fool.
3. Bending sickle's compass.
4. Edge of doom.
Their meanings are as follows"
1. Marriage - Union.
2. Time's fool - Subject to the whim of change. Love is not a time's fool means that love is constant for all time, it is not subject to change.
3. Bending sickle's compass - In its range of impacts.
4. Edge of doom - Infinity. Edge of doom means time without end.
Because they could get hurt and something really bad could happen also !
C. is the correct answer.
C is the only answer choice that refers to the future ("a sign, he said, a sign"). The rest of the answers refer to things happening in the present in the story, with almost no reference to the future of the plot.
