Which excerpt provides a clue to the time period in which "Homesickness" takes place?
"As well as this, she kept being sick and refused to eat and ran a temperature"
"I set about devising a stunt for getting myself sent back home"
O"... she had had a nurse's training and she didn't want a ruptured appendix on her hands.
"I was taken home across the Bristol Channel on the paddle-steamer"

It will be through raising high the prestige of your administration by success in short-range recovery, that you will have the driving force to accomplish long-range reform. on the other hand, even wise and necessary reform may, in some respects, impede and complicate recovery. what is the purpose of the transitional phrase on the other hand in this excerpt? a) it provides a counter-argument to the writer's main ideas. b) it provides a hypothetical situation for the reader to ponder. c) it provides additional evidence in favor of the writer's argument. d) it provides information about laws that are opposed to the writer's argument.