Instructions: You are given an English sentence with a blank, and you need to predict the missing word. After completing, the whole sentence should be gramatically correct and non-ambiguous.
Input: and then nova scotia is right close to the island it isn't as if we were getting him from england or the states he can't be much different from ourselves well ____ hope it will turn out all right said missus rachel in a tone that plainly indicated her painful doubts
Output:
i