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In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927), the central action around which the novel ostensibly revolves—the Ramsay family’s long-promised trip to visit a lighthouse—is deferred for nearly a decade and proves anticlimactic when, in the novel’s final section, it finally        Woolf deliberately eschews plot-driven development, thus diverging from her Victorian predecessors, reflects her oft-stated conviction that the most significant events in human life occur not in the external world but within consciousness itself.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
happens.
B
happens. That
C
happens:
D
happens that