Read the following passage from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. It was like the kind of forecastle yarn I’d heard the sailors tell so often. I had not believed them. Not then. And yet—what was I to think other than that a miracle had transpired?

Excerpts from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, copyright © 1990 by Avi. Used by permission of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. All rights reserved.

What does the transitional phrase “and yet” suggest about the information that is about to follow?

It will offer a conclusion.
It will offer a contradiction.
It will offer a comparison.
It will offer an example.