Which of the following phrases or sentences from the novel best describes the setting as the action of the story begins?
a. and so, in a crooked little house at the head of hancock's wharf on crowded fish
b. on one side of the deserted wharf were warehouses, on the other were ships.
c. the laphams were on the edge of the sea. d "we had been living at towensend, maine." is the answer a?