C) So dark, we couldn't find our way from the car to the hunting lodge without flashlights.
A better sentence would be: We couldn't find our way from the car to the hunting lodge without flashlights because it was so dark.
Answer: The answer choice I will go with is B. Gertude is opening up the possibility that Ophelia did not kill herself.
What does this even mean you not even asking a question
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The summary of the story should begin by explaining that all the birds came together for a contest.
And the contest was who can fly farthest into the sky shall be called chief.
Eagle was also present in the contest but wren was made chief because it flew higher with the help of eagle's wing and returned at last.