Read the passage.
"I think we have drawn as much as we can from this curious letter; and now, Sir Henry, has anything else of interest happened to you since
you have been in London?"
"Why. no, Mr. Holmes. I think not."
"You have not observed anyone follow or watch you?
"I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel," said our visitor. "Why in thunder should arnyone follow or watch me?"
"We are coming to that. You have nothing else to report to us before we go into this matter?"
"Well, it depends upon what you think worth reporting."
"I think anything out of the ordinary routine of life well worth reporting."
Sir Henry smiled.
"I don't know much of British life yet, for I have spent nearly all my time in the States and in Canada. But I hope that to lose one of your
boots is not part of the ordinary routine of life over here.
"You have lost one of your boots?"
"My dear sir," cried Dr. Mortimer, "it is only mislaid. You will find it when you return to the hotel. What is the use of troubling Mr. Holmes
with trifles of this ind?
"Well, he asked me for anything outside the ordinary routine."
Which is the author most likely foreshadowing in this passage by focusing on the missing boot?
O1.
Dr. Mortimer will confess that he took the boot in order to replace one of his.
O2. Although appearing to be trivial, the missing boot will turn out to be significant.
O3.
Sir Henry will begin to lose each of his shirts and jackets during his stay in Britain.
O4.
Sherlock Holmes will realize that asking questions does not help to solve mysteries.
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