From “My Landlady" by Guy De Maupassant

When my father had made up his mind that I
should go to Paris to continue my law studies,
there had been a long discussion about
settling everything. ...

Some of our neighbors told us of a certain
Mme.' Kergaran, a native of Brittany, 2 who
took in boarders, and so my father arranged
matters by letter with this respectable person,
at whose house I and my luggage arrived one
evening.

On page 1 of the story, how do the first two paragraphs function in the overall structure of the text?

as a foreshadowing for the way the landlady will behave

as an introduction for the narrator's main conflict

as an approach that reveals the narrator's key motivations

as a backstory that explains events before the current plot

Read the excerpt from "object lesson, part 2." "no sign of the original envelope? " "no." "i found two boys with bills — in each case a single, too. david strager and joey buell. no envelope." louise's brows met. ellery glanced up at the clock. 9: 07. he strolled over to her. "don't show them you're worried. there's nothing to worry about. we have twenty-eight minutes." he raised his voice, smiling. which statement explains the inference ellery makes and why he makes it? he infers that miss carpenter thinks they are not going to find the thief because he sees her facial expression. he infers that it will take twenty-eight more minutes to find the missing money because that is all the time he has. he infers that the original envelope will not be found because neither david strager nor joey buell has it. he infers that david strager and joey buell took the money because they each have a dollar bill.