Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
some stronger intelligence reaches out from the dimensional shadows of the very space we live in and wrests from us the matter which we know to be our own. But there had been no need to wait for that distant day. Scant years after he had written those prophetic words the thing was happening. Man had played unwittingly into the hands of those other minds in the other dimension. Man had waged a war and war He could see it all now. By an insidious mass hypnosis minions from that other dimension ... or was it one supreme intelligence ... had deliberately sown the seeds of dissension. The reduction of the world's mental power had been carefully planned with diabolic premeditation. On impulse he suddenly turned, crossed the room and opened the Like an automaton he turned again and paced to the hall door. Weakly Mr. Chambers moved back to his chair in the corner. For people long ago had gathered that Mr. Chambers desired to be Chambers took his cigar. That was all. So there he was. Embattled in the last corner of the world that dimension to another. Men who had lived close to the things they loved, who had endowed those things with such substantial form by power of mind alone that they now stood out alone against the The street was gone. The rest of his house was gone. This room This room, he knew, would stay the longest. And when the rest of the room was gone, this corner with his favorite chair would revolutionary to cost Mr. Chambers his post at the university. October wind was rustling the dead leaves when Mr. Chambers years. The bedroom was for sleeping, the kitchen for eating. This Jefferson was out and he grumbled a little to himself when he was expulsion from the university, he had lived by the clock. Mr. Chambers turned his eyes back into the room. The clock was snarling and growling, snapping at his heels. But Mr. Chambers was blurting floated to Mr. Chambers. "Oh, well," said Mr. Chambers, "I never did like that very well." The wind whipped the muted words away and Mr. Chambers grumbled But, after all, what was the use? One man, alone, could not stand Mr. Chambers had written. autumn darkness as he walked along. For there was nothing ... absolutely nothing in the world ... that he would let upset him. That was a tenet he had laid down twenty years ago. He wondered if he would retain his individuality ... if he still But as Mr. Chambers neared them they fell into what seemed an There was one answer to all of that. He simply didn't know. Nothingness advanced upon him, ate its way across the room, The room, or what was left of it, plunged into dreadful silence. then stepped back and Mr. Chambers continued on his walk. Mr. Chambers started. The clock had stopped. Funny ... the first Shaken, muttering to himself, Mr. Chambers let himself in his Silence filled the room. A silence that was measured by the But silence was no strange thing to Mr. Chambers. Once he had unexplainable terror. Beyond them he never went. But recluse though he was, he could not on occasion escape from Huddled in the chair, he frowned slowly. It was disquieting to No, he hadn't. Take this room, for example. After twenty years it Mr. Chambers loved that picture. It had depth, he always said. It Further reverie became an effort as Mr. Chambers felt himself succumbing to weariness. He undressed and went to bed. For an hour he lay awake, assailed by vague fears he could neither define nor understand. When finally he dozed off it was to lose himself in a series of horrific dreams. He dreamed first that he was a castaway on a In another dream he was pursued by a horror which he could neither see nor hear, but only could imagine. And as he sought to flee he stayed in the one place. His legs worked frantically, All next day he was uneasy and as he left the house that evening, before, why he had arrived home fifteen minutes early. slammed and locked the door behind him and made his way Was something happening in the world which he, in his secluded Mr. Chambers shivered, reached to turn up the collar of his coat, There was something back of this, Mr. Chambers told himself. the happenings in the world from which he had excluded himself. He brought them back to mind now and lingered over the one central theme of the talk he overheard: the wars and plagues. And somehow those gruesome statistics seemed tied up with his own experience. Something, somewhere, some part of his earlier life, seemed to hold an explanation. But try as he would his befuddled Mr. Chambers got to his feet, strode to the door, opened it and With a sigh of relief, Mr. Chambers turned back into the hall. Gulping in fright, Mr. Chambers slammed the door shut, locked it He awoke, body drenched with perspiration. Vague light of early remembered them, one by one. But his mind, still fogged by sleep and astonishment, took the happenings in its stride, mulled over them, lost the keen edge of fantastic terror that lurked around The light through the windows slowly grew brighter. Mr. Chambers too might right itself. But Mr. Chambers was very weary. Too He turned from the window and dressed slowly. In the living room later he arose and almost ran across the room to the old mahogany that Mr. Chambers' entire life was centered. of some anti-rational cult, had forced his expulsion from the But in modern astrophysics and mathematics we gain an insight into the possibility ... yes probability ... that there are other dimensions, other brackets of time and space impinging on the one Perhaps we shall come upon a day, far distant, when our plane, our world will dissolve beneath our feet and before our eyes as some stronger intelligence reaches out from the dimensional shadows of the very space we live in and wrests from us the matter which we know to be our own. A tumultuous idea hammered at him. Men had died by the millions all over the world. Where there had been thousands of minds there The plague had swept Europe and Asia almost clean of life, had blighted Africa, had reached South America ... might even have come to the United States. He remembered the whispers he had it all gripped him with damning clarity. There were not sufficient minds in existence to retain the material world in its mundane form. Some other power from another dimension was fighting to supersede man's control and take his universe into its own plane! Abruptly Mr. Chambers closed the book, shoved it back in the case With a wild cry, Mr. Chambers turned and ran. Back down the appeared to thin ... the enveloping curtain fell away, and he that Mr. Chambers felt the eyes peering at him. Mr. Chambers pushed open the door of his house. But he did not Without removing his hat and coat, he sank exhausted in his He sighed with relief as he saw the room was unchanged. This was his room, he thought. Rooms acquire the personality of But how long could he ... his brain ... maintain its existence? Mr. Chambers stared at the marine print and for a moment a little breath of reassurance returned to him. They couldn't take this But this room was his. He alone had furnished it. He alone, since This room would stay. It must stay on ... it must.... Wheeling, he stared across the room. Was it his imagination, or But he knew he wasn't mad. He knew that he perhaps was the sanest of all men who walked the earth. For he, and he alone, had foreseen this very thing. And the others had scoffed at him for it. Somewhere else the children might be playing on a street. But it been formed would now be cast in a different mold, stolen by different minds in a different dimension. Perhaps we shall come upon a day, far distant, when our plane, our world will dissolve beneath our feet and before our eyes as

<question>:
Why was Mr. Chambers able to remain in his room after most of reality had disappeared?

<options>:
A No one else knew he was there, allowing him to hide
B He remained focused on the marine painting on the wall
C He spent so much time in the room that it was ingrained in his psyche
D He was spared because he foretold the coming of the beings from other dimensions

<answer>:

C