Which excerpt from the cask of amontillado present the reader with the initial conflict of the story

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Which is the most effective paraphrase of the passage "six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends" - the odyssey