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read these lines from the end of the poem.
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never the least stir made the listeners,
though every word he spake
fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
from the one man left awake:
ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
and the sound of iron on stone,
and how the silence surged softly backward,
when the plunging hoofs were gone.
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which of the below statements describes the meaning of these lines?
a the listeners were talking amongst themselves and did not get to the door
in time
the listeners do not know that the traveller is trying to get into the house
the listeners do not respond to the traveller, though they hear him
d the traveller needs to get home before the storm hits, so he leaves