input: Text: PEN PAL Illustrated by DON SIBLEY By MILTON LESSER All she wanted was a mate and she had the gumption to go out and hunt one down. But that meant poaching in a strictly forbidden territory! The best that could be said for Matilda Penshaws was that she was something of a paradox. She was thirty-three years old, certainly not aged when you consider the fact that the female life expectancy is now up in the sixties, but the lines were beginning to etch their permanent paths across her face and now she needed certain remedial undergarments at which she would have scoffed ten or even five years ago. Matilda was also looking for a husband. This, in itself, was not unusual—but Matilda was so completely wrapped up in the romantic fallacy of her day that she sought a prince charming, a faithful Don Juan, a man who had been everywhere and tasted of every worldly pleasure and who now wanted to sit on a porch and talk about it all to Matilda. The fact that in all probability such a man did not exist disturbed Matilda not in the least. She had been known to say that there are over a billion men in the world, a goodly percentage of whom are eligible bachelors, and that the right one would come along simply because she had been waiting for him. Matilda, you see, had patience. She also had a fetish. Matilda had received her A.B. from exclusive Ursula Johns College and Radcliff had yielded her Masters degree, yet Matilda was an avid follower of the pen pal columns. She would read them carefully and then read them again, looking
  Question: What is significant about the meal Matilda is served?
  
   (A) It lends credence to Gorka’s otherworldly claims. How else could it have happened? 
   (B) She’d been starving, and it was enough to distract her from the reality of what happened to her.
   (C) It’s exactly what she wanted to eat, and she didn’t have to ask for it. ,
   (D) It means Gorka’s paranoid servant had been observing her, and determined her favorite foods. 
  Answer:
output: It lends credence to Gorka’s otherworldly claims. How else could it have happened?