Select the correct text in the passage.
Which three details in the text work together to build tension in the rising action?
[7] The hour struck for retiring; and the whole household came to escort me to my room.
Why?
[8] They called to me: "Good-night." I entered the apartment, shut the door, and remained
standing, without moving a single step, holding the wax candle in my hand.
[9] I heard laughter and whispering in the corridor. Without doubt they were spying on me.
I cast a glance round the walls, the furniture, the ceiling, the hangings, the floor. I saw
nothing to justify suspicion. I heard persons moving about outside my door. I had no doubt
they were looking through the keyhole....
[10] All the same, there was danger. I was going perhaps to receive a cold shower both
from overhead, or perhaps, the moment I stretched myself out, to find myself sinking to
the floor with my mattress. I searched in my memory for all the practical jokes of which I
ever had experience. And I did not want to be caught. Ah! certainly not! certainly not! Then I
suddenly bethought myself. a precaution which I considered insured safety. I caught hold
of the side of the mattress gingerly, and very slowly drew it toward me. It came away,
followed by the sheet and the rest of the bedclothes. I dragged all these objects into the
very middle of the room, facing the entrance door. I made my bed over again as best I
could at some distance from the suspected bedstead and the corner which had filled me
with such anxiety. Then I extinguished all the candles, and, groping my way, I slipped
under the bed clothes.