Read this excerpt from "Eavesdropping" by Eudora Welty and answer the question.

What they talked about, I have no idea ... It was no doubt whatever a young married couple spending their first time privately in each other's company in the long, probably harried day would talk about. It was the murmur of their voices, the back-and-forth, the unnoticed stretching away of time between my bedtime and theirs, that made me bask there at my distance. What I felt was not that I was excluded from them but that I was included, in - and because of - what I could hear in their voices and what I could see of their faces in the cone of yellow light under the brown-scorched shade.

In the above excerpt, which words best establish immediacy?

"It was no doubt ... "

"What I felt ... "

"What they talked about ..."

"made me bask there at my distance"

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Maximilian Carey

11 January, 11:55

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Nathaniel Waller · Answer 1

"It was no doubt ... " establishes immediacy as it states that there was no hesitation or thought to be done before a conclusion could be drawn.