Question

Which lines from "The Listeners" best support the inference that the Traveler was gone longer than the people in the house expected?
A "'Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,' he said."
B “'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveler,
Knocking on the moonlit door;"
C "And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,"
D "But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then"

Answer 1

D. “But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then”

Explanation:

The house was empty and only phantoms/ ghosts still were in it at the time. There seemed to be nobody around when he finally arrived, because he was gone for so long.