I think the best choice is the last one: <span>d. appropriate length.
. Length is also determined by the purpose of the work and the context in which it will appear. (for examples, some newspaper articles have per-specified length). </span>
The ritual of the Daughters of Mary consoled
Lily, thus making her overcome her anger.
<span>Lily was drawn into the ritual of Mary being
covered with life-giving honey. She realized that there are people who also
loved her and that she belonged in their community. She started to embrace her
real self. The consoling ritual made her into a compassionate and loving
daughter.</span>
Alice has experienced many odd things since falling down a rabbit hole and things continue to get weirder from there so it's only respectable that she's starting to think not everything is impossible. Even in this scene we experience another impossible thing; "n<span>ot much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw...wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains..." Notice how it says flower beds and fountains. If the door that led to this place was the size of a rat-hole what on earth could've gone through the hole and planted the garden and created a fountain? That is yet another impossible thought just from the passage. Alice has every right to think there must be a way to get inside, afterall, someone had to be inside to put everything there, right?
(Feel free to copy/paste this as your answer, I don't mind.)
</span>
