Read this small passage/excerpt from text and answer the question that follows:
I must confess that the oddness of these three old pensioners in whose charge her ladyship had left the castle, and the deep-toned, old-fashioned furniture of the
housekeeper's room, in which they foregathered, had affected me curiously in spite
of my effort to keep myself at a matter-of-fact phase. They seemed to belong to another age, an older age, an age when things spiritual were indeed to be feared, when common sense was uncommon, an age when omens and witches were
credible, and ghosts beyond denying. Their very existence, thought I, is spectral;
Why did the author choose to focus on this character and setting description? What
effect does it have?

A. Distracts the reader from the main plot
B. Puts the reader more on edge
C. Scared the narrator into leaving
D. Tricks the narrator into entering the room