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. For the first time it occurred to me that if things worked out the way everyone was hoping, I'd be going halfway around the world to live with a man I hadn't even met.
A. It would be ungrateful.
B. Don't send me so far away, I wanted to cry, but of course I didn't.
C. Would I ever see my parents again?
D. Father had worked so hard to find this match for me.
S2. Besides, wasn't it every woman's destiny, as Mother was always telling me, to leave the known for the unknown?
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
Option D (CBAD) is the most coherent sequence. It moves from the personal fear (C) to the emotional reaction (B), then justifies the suppression of that reaction by mentioning the father's effort (D) and the narrator's sense of duty/gratitude (A), leading into the mother's philosophical perspective in S2.