Select the correct inference of the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado." Indeed, it is very damp. Once more let me implore you to return. No? Then I must positively leave you. But I must first render you all the little attentions in my power."
"The Amontillado!" ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered from his astonishment.

The narrator knows he will abandon Fortunato in the vaults.
The narrator is concerned about the dampness of the vaults.
The narrator wants to convince Fortunato to leave the vaults.
The narrator will make sure Fortunato is comfortable in the vaults.

A

Explanation:

The ending of The Amontillado was essentially planned by the narrator...he knew what he was doing all along.

B is wrong because it was planned and he even acknowledged the dampness

C is wrong because, once again, it was planned...rather than convincing him to leave he was trying to lure him in with the Amontillado

evertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable.

explanation:

●intensive purposes is the correct answer