C
Reason - subject starts at sentence and followed by the subordinating sentence which is chandler yelling for help!
The statement that describes a gothic element in the excerpt "The Lady Maid's Bell" that would show a social attitute at that the time of the Wharton's was "Some ladies are very stiff about having their servants’ friends in the house overnight."
Definitely C since it’s the only one that actually works
The woman and the host is the characters in "Arrangement in Black and White" that conveys refinement because the woman is the one that ask the host to present her to one of a negro singer which is Walter Williams, so the host and the woman does or conveys refinement to the singer.
A it wouldn’t make sense if you used the other options