Answer: Choice B is the best answer. The previous question asks what
consequence Silas has experienced as a result of adopting Eppie. The
answer, that he begins to imagine a new future for himself and her, is
supported in the first paragraph: “but Eppie was an object compacted
of changes and hopes that forced his thoughts onward, and carried
them far away from their old eager pacing towards the same blank
limit — carried them away to the new things that would come with the
coming years.
