Read the passage.

In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became the neighbors of Lord Byron. At first we spent our pleasant hours on the lake or wandering on its shores ... But it proved a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.

Where do the events take place in this excerpt from Mary Shelley's introduction to Frankenstein?

a) on the shores of a lake

b) in a young scientist's lab

c) at a house in Switzerland

d) in Shelley's home