Given below are six sentences taken from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are numbered S1 and S2 and are placed in the first and last positions respectively and are fixed in their positions. The other four sentences between the first and last sentences are jumbled up and are numbered A, B, C, and D. Rearrange the jumbled sentences in a logical sequence keeping the unity and coherence of the paragraph intact. Choose the correct alternative that best describes the sequence.
S1. The staircase window having been boarded up, no light came down into the hall.
A. Now the prosaic woman, looking about her, was more perplexed than she knew by everything that she saw, by traces of her long former habit of life-the yellow smoke stain up the white marble mantelpiece, the ring left by a vase on the top of the escritoire; the bruise in the wallpaper where, on the door being thrown open widely, the China handle had always hit the wall.
B. Though not much dust had seeped in, each object wore a film of another kind; and, the only ventilation being the chimney, the whole drawing room smelled of the cold hearth.
C. But one door, she could just see, stood ajar, so she went quickly through into the room and unshuttered the big window in there.
D. The piano, having gone away to be stored, had left what looked like claw marks on its part of the parquet.
S2. Mrs. Drover put down her parcels on the escritoire and left the room to proceed upstairs; the things she wanted were in a bedroom chest.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
Logical Sequence of Sentences:
S1: Dark hall.
C: Enters a room and opens shutters (brings light).
B: Describes the air and smell of the room.
D: Describes the floor (piano marks).
A: Looks around at the furniture (mentions the escritoire).
S2: Uses the escritoire and leaves.
The correct sequence is CADB.