Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story.

Which quotation from "The Black Cat" best supports the inference that even though the narrator explains how the image of the cat appears after the fire, he does not wholly believe it?

A. “For months I could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat;…”

B. “Although I thus readily accounted to my reason,…it did not the less fail to make a deep impression upon my fancy.”

C. “When I first beheld this apparition—for I could scarcely regard it as less—my wonder and my terror were extreme.”

D. “I went so far as to regret the loss of the animal,…”