The inference that is best supported by the passage below is:
D. The narrator prefers to mind his own business and not pay attention to the ceremony or the refusal.
The best inference is the one that says that the narrator wants to mind his business just as the townsmen were doing. None of them were interested in finding out the reason for the refusal but they all preferred to go with the flow.
The narrator also decided to adopt the same view that the people had about the ceremonies.
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