Question

the phantom rickshaw1 by rudyard kipling (adapted excerpt) this excerpt is from a collection of ghost stories written by rudyard kipling. this story is told through the narrator, jack, who has rejected the affections of mrs. wessington, an officers wife with whom he has had an affair. mrs. wessington insists that the end of their romance is a hideous mistake and is heartbroken further as jack becomes engaged to kitty, a younger woman he loves. eventually, mrs. wessington dies of (1) while my waler2 was cautiously feeling his way over the loose shale, and kitty was laughing and chattering at my side - while all simla,3 that is to say as much of it as had then come from the plains, was grouped round the reading - room and pelitis veranda - i was aware that some one, apparently at a vast distance, was calling me by my christian name. it struck me that i had heard the voice before, but when and where i could not at once determine. in the short space it took to cover the road between the path from hamiltons shop and the first plank of the combermere bridge i had thought over half - a - dozen people who might have select the correct answer from the drop - down menu. read the excerpt from the phantom rickshaw. (10) in my room i sat down and tried calmly to reason out the matter. here was i, theobald jack pansay, a well - educated bengal civilian in the year of grace 1885, presumably sane, certainly healthy, driven in terror from my sweethearts side by the apparition of a woman who had been dead and buried eight months ago. these were facts that i could not blink. nothing was further from my thought than any memory of mrs. wessington when kitty and i left hamiltons shop. nothing was more utterly commonplace than the stretch of wall opposite pelitis. it was broad daylight. the road was full of people; and yet here, look you, in defiance of every law of probability, in direct outrage of natures ordinance, there had appeared to me a determining if he needs help thinking of leaving kitty longing for mrs. wessington questioning his own sanity next

Explanation:

In the excerpt, Jack is described as a presumably sane and healthy person who is driven to terror by the appearance of a dead - woman. He then sits down to 'reason out the matter', which implies he is questioning his own sanity as he is faced with a situation that defies all logic and probability.

Answer:

questioning his own sanity