Wild mushrooms were an_ of my aunt, who picked and ate them whenever possible. Unfortunately, her abnormal interest proved_, for she died after a meal of poisonous creamed mushroom on toast.

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.