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

<passage>:
THE HUNTERS acid. "That'll do," said Miss Burton firmly. "Now, let's get along to the lion house. And please, children, do not make faces at the lions. How would you like to be in a cage and have people make faces at you? Always remember to be considerate to others." "Even lions, Miss Burton?" "Even lions." they followed the old mother hen lions. Was he considerate of them too?" "There is no time for silly "But Mr. George shot lots of through the bars, and a polar along." They all trouped after her, Palit and Manto bringing up the rear. Manto giggled, and whispered with amusement, "That Frances giggled. "Oh, Miss Burton, do you think the polar bear would want to play catch?" thinking, Palit. But in fact, quite unnecessary. The things that you do to avoid being suspected!" The two men who were looking on wore pleased smiles. "Charming," said Manto. "But yourself saying things you do not intend." "Sorry, Palit. It wasn't an attempt to show my skill, I assure you. It's that by now I have a are the ones who will creatures—" "I suggest that they could stand investigation. It would be good to know how they think." "Whatever you say, Manto. If you wish, we shall join the little So they stayed, and out of ladies." first." Palit nodded, and the two men stepped under the shade of a delicacies favored by the young. Manto wanted to win easy popularity by treating a few of the other children, but Palit put his came from beneath the branches and ice cream, and other girlish foot down. No use arousing notice her. The polar bears, the grizzlies, the penguins, the reptiles, all were left behind. At times the again, and not one was lost. where the kangaroos live. come from?" "Australia!" clanged the shrill animals come from Australia?" Carolyn giggled. "Oh, yes, she can act very well. I can act like people. She can act like animals." The laughing, girlish eyes evaded face. "I've been here before. Wallabies and wombats!" "Very good, Frances." Frances smirked at the approbation. kind of animal." "I've been to the zoo with a pair of glittering give it back." and then when I came "I'm Doris Palit. I went with Carolyn to the bathroom—" two children and not noticing it right want to change here, and walk around dressed as a lion hunter." "Why not? I've walked around dressed as worse. A drunk." "Drunks don't attract attention. They're too ordinary." "But a drunken lion hunter—that's something special." He went into the next room and began "The women who swoon at you will swoon at anybody. Besides, I don't consider that making nitwits boys, who also whispered to each should let her. I really don't." "Please, Miss Burton, it was that would enable him to brave the wrath of man, beast, or devil. an accident. I won't do it again." "How do I look?" and we're not supposed to go to how I'm going to face those kids. If they were boys it wouldn't be so bad, but a bunch of little girls!" health, children. They say he got jungle fever in Africa, where he was shooting all those lions, and rhinoceroses, and elephants for his new picture. That's why you mustn't bother him too much." other, in manly superiority, and pretended to find amusement in the presence of so many of the fairer sex. In this atmosphere of giggles and whispers, Manto and Palit could exchange confidences without being noticed. Palit said savagely, "Why did you tell her that I could act too?" You're a very good animal performer. You make a wonderful dragon, for instance. Go on, Palit, show her what a fine dragon you can—" "Stop it, you fool, before you cause trouble!" "Very well, Palit. Did I tempt you?" "Did you tempt me! You and "You and your lack of it! But let's not argue now, Palit. Here, I think, comes the lion-hunter. Let's scream, and be as properly excited as every one else is." reasonably sober, for a change." "But those kids! They'll squeal and giggle—" "We must have our story prepared He strode to the front of the from themselves. No drinks." of wild and ferocious beasts were a little harder to take, but he took them. Then the old don't agree with you. I remember once, when we were on the trail of a rogue elephant—" elephant, modestly granting a co-hero's role to his guide. Then another story illustrating the strange ways of lions. The elephant gun figured in still another tale, this time of a vicious rhinoceros. His audience was Africa—" quiet now, breathless with interest, and he welcomed the respite lions." "You're so unforgiving, Carol. You don't have much use for me, careless, Manto. You had no business imitating her expression." "I'm sorry, Palit, but it was so suggestive. And I'm a very suggestible person." they were, eyes glaring, manes expression too." "You are imagining things, Manto. Another thing, that mistake in starting to say you were ruffled, more terrifying than any don't you, Manto? Just as you did when you changed your they see." Manto said tolerantly, "You're getting jittery, Palit. We've been away from home too long." animals. Who knows? Some day they, too, may be in the movies, just as you "Please, Miss Burton," said Doris. "I don't know how to act. I can't even imitate a puppy. Manto, I know I'm superior. "And you would take chances of losing all this." "Don't be silly, Palit. What chances am I taking?" "The chance of being discovered. afternoon, those kids lost the ambition to go on the stage, the whole human race would have we are, and lead these people to suspect their danger." This time, Manto's giggle was no longer mere camouflage, but you show him what the lions do. Yes, Carolyn and Doris, you're going to be lions. You are waiting in your lairs, ready to pounce on the unwary hunter. expressed to a certain degree over the world, we have taken take the form of the school the spring, and you open at present there is not the slightest shadow of danger. So, Palit, you had better stop being fearful." Palit said firmly, "Be careful, and I won't be fearful. That's all there is to it." neck, and his heart froze. Facing him across the platform were two lions, tensed as if to leap. Where they had come from he didn't know, but there shouldn't want us to lose these children. They're so exactly the he had seen in Africa. There they were, with the threat of death and destruction in their They had been speaking too loud, they had been overheard. Palit and Manto stared at each other, and giggled coyly. Then, after a second to think, Palit handsome, manly, and bloodless face, heart unfrozen now and pounding fiercely, knees melting, terror and helplessness on his Frances, a dark-haired nine-year-old wild beasts, shouted at them in its own accents of barking thunder. a challenge to the roaring of the speech had died away. Across the platform from him were two great bodies, the bodies of lions, and yet curiously unlike the beasts in some ways, now that they were dead and dissolving as if corroded by some invisible

<question>:
Where did the lions come from at the end?

<options>:
A They escaped from the zoo.
B There weren't really lions there at all.
C Manto and Palit turned into lions to kill George.
D Manto and Palit accidentally turned into lions.

<answer>:

D