The Wives of the Dead
What does Margaret hear and how does she react in paragraphs 8 and 9 (below)?

But even while a sort of childish fretfulness made her thus resolve, she was breathing hurriedly, and straining her ears to catch a repetition of the summons. It is difficult to be convinced of the death of one whom we have deemed another self. The knocking was now renewed in slow and regular strokes, apparently given with the soft end of a doubled fist, and was accompanied by words, faintly heard through several thicknesses of wall. Margaret looked to her sister’s chamber, and beheld her still lying in the depths of sleep. She arose, placed her foot upon the floor, and slightly arrayed herself, trembling between fear and eagerness as she did so.

“Heaven help me!” sighed she. “I have nothing left to fear, and methinks I am ten times more a coward than ever.”

A) She hears rain, thinks she is having a dream, and tries to go back to sleep.

B) She hears knocking and hesitates, but goes to the door because she doesn’t have anything to lose.

C) She is too frightened and wakes Mary to answer the door for her.

D) She runs to the door immediately, believing it to be her supposedly dead husband.