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Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnum villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess; the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical chances, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire.

The setting in paragraph 1 MOST LIKELY demonstrates that

A) The time of day is most likely mid-morning.
B) Mr. White’s son loves to play chess all day.
C) It most likely takes place before the 1900s one evening.
D) It most likely takes place in the mid-1980s one dark afternoon.