Which sentence(s) from the excerpt of "Two Friends" BEST demonstrate(s) that Monsieur Morrisot and Monsieur Sauvage were
afraid?
A
The two friends, pale as death, stood silently side by
side, a slight fluttering of the hands alone betraying their
emotion.
B
Monsieur Sauvage made no reply. Again they stood
side by side.
C
And the two began placidly discussing political
problems with the sound common sense of peaceful,
matter-of-fact citizens-agreeing on one point that they
would never be free.
D.
"Just think that in five minutes you will be at the bottom
of that water. In five minutes! You have relations,
presume?"

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator