Which excerpt from "The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture" conveys the playful tone of the passage?
O The attention of the company was immediately turned to me, if my face had been pale the moment before, it now glowed
almost to burning.
I tried to laugh, but could only make a grimace, and found all the muscles of my face twitching at sixes and sevens.
O There is a picture in the room in which I was put last night, that has had an effect upon me the most singular and
incomprehensible.
O "A picture!" said the old gentleman with the haunted head. “A picture!" cried the narrator with the waggish nose. A picture!
a picture!" echoed several voices.