Comprehension Passage
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
The surgeon deposited it in her arms. She imprinted her cold, white lips passionately on its
Dickens, Oliver Twist
The implication of "they had been strangers too long" is:
1
Those who spoke of 'hope and comfort' had been strangers too long.
2
'Hope' had been stranger to 'comfort' for too long.
3
'Hope and comfort' had been stranger to the patient too long.
4
'Hope and comfort' had been strangers to the surgeon, nurse and the patient too long.