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

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the universe trapped here and ready to destroy its captors given one chance! Swiftly O'Rielly unlocked the controls and reset them. The throbbing rumble changed tone. "Well, Mr. O'Rielly?" O'Rielly wondered had Callahan passed out, was so long before the old Burner Chief demanded hoarsely, "Didn't you lock them controls before blast-off?" "If every control hadn't been locked in correct setting," O'Rielly answered from his own angry bewilderment, "the error would have registered before blast-off—wouldn't it, sir?" "So a control reset itself in flight, hey?" "I don't know yet, sir." "Well, Mr. O'Rielly, you better know before we orbit Earth!" why did something crazy have to happen to O'Rielly's? In a the thing had been bossed by dames of course officers. Ever since Venus blast-off O'Rielly had been in Four's watch Well, ma'am, O'Rielly searched every cranny where even a three-tailed his brain was suddenly taken apart and slapped together again. Felt that way. resetting the control." O'Rielly suddenly felt like turning her over his knee and whaling her until she couldn't sit for a year. This, mind you, he felt in an age himself saying in sympathetic outrage, "A shame you had to go to all that bother to get out here!" Yes, ma'am, O'Rielly was floating on a pink cloud with heavenly music in his head. Never felt so fine before. Except on the Venus layover when he'd been roped into a dice game with a bunch of Venus lads who When he talked he was like digging a hole in front of himself. "Well, what about that control?" "What control?" "Your fusion control that got itself two points low!" "Oh, that little thing." sharply. "Hey, you been wetting your whistle on that Venus vino again? snapped back over his shoulder, "Use your shower!" O'Rielly stood considering his shower door. Somehow he doubted that would be improved by knowledge of she who was in O'Rielly's shower now. to shower the stink off yourself? Old Woman's taking a Venus bigwig "Venus dames," O'Rielly said dreamily, "don't boss anything, do they?" "O'Rielly! You trying to get both of us condemned to a Uranus moon?" "Well, that's when Earth dames took over like armies of wild cats with knots in their tails. Before the guys who'd brought the Venus pick up with a blotter. Earth dames wound up by flying the Venus ones "Venus boys rared up and served notice that if Earth ever got any funny atom's eyebrow. Touchy as hornets on a hot griddle, them Venus guys. "No Venus dames allowed within fifty miles of their port. Earth guys dreamily. "But not a peek of any Venus dame." With suddenly enlivened interest O'Rielly looked at Callahan. "Hey, how "Hah? What?" Callahan blinked like waking from a trance even groaned to himself, something that sounded like, "Blabbering like I'd had you hear! Only tried to clear your mind about Venus dames so you could Awp, lemme out where I can think of something to save me own neck at least!" Was all O'Rielly could do to keep from rolling on the deck with glee. O'Rielly's shower door, however, opened abruptly. O'Rielly had not was being slapped together again. "O'Rielly! Awp, you angel-faced you don't have to explain to me, but God help the whole universe if we don't flimflam the Old Woman!" With which ominous remark, rendered in a zesty devil-may-care manner, however, Callahan threw himself into O'Rielly's shower. O'Rielly stood looking thoughtfully at lovely, womanly, exquisite Trillium. Just like that, O'Rielly felt as sparkling of mind as a worry about another thing!" "Oh, I'm not," she assured him happily. "Everything is going just the Wasn't too bad a fib. The more O'Rielly thought of Trillium, the more said with a jaunty laugh, "dames mean nothing to me. Indeed 'twouldn't steps from his responsibility. To keep the Old Woman from possibly blowing her gaskets completely, O'Rielly simply stepped in, shut the door, flipped a switch and tingled as he was electronically cleansed O'Rielly's watch room. Was all O'Rielly could do to keep from busting out laughing for joy. course. "Trillium?" His Excellency bellowed as if stung by one of the sabre-tailed hornets of his native planet. "Trillium!" "Trillium," O'Rielly pleaded in loving anguish, "why do you have to of Venus and this thing can mean war!" O'Rielly, Callahan and Trillium. "All right, come along!" The flunkies' faces went slack with shock, then were replaced by a blizzard of scrambled faces and torrents of incoherent voices. The Venus panel finally held steady on universally notorious features, that were as fierce as an eagle's, in a fancy war helmet. "Trillium! My "Some loud creature is interfering," Madame President snapped with annoyance. "Blasted fools still have the circuits crossed," Mr. President swore. "Some silly female cackling now!" "An innocent child," Mr. President snapped, "obviously kidnapped by those two idiotic Earthmen there!" tell the truth!" "Very well. Grandmamma told me how." "Obviously Trillium's poor little brain has been drugged," His Excellency Dimdooly declared. "Grandmamma Berta wouldn't know the first thing about such things!" "She learned," Trillium stated emphatically, "a hundred and twenty-five years ago." "Hundred twenty-five," Grandpapa president growled like a boiling poised on the button that had been waiting a thousand years to blow Earth out of the universe. "My grandchild was kidnapped by men under your official command! Weren't you, Trillium dear?" "But Venus men are so excited all the time about going to war they Venus for ten thousand years and all the women in the universe can't His bellows, however, could be heard yet. "Unhand me, you fool creatures! Guards! Guards!" control everywhere now." "Dimmy," Trillium was saying firmly to His Excellency, "you have beat around the bush with me long enough. Now say it!" enough that we Venus women no longer radiate any threat to Earth's Yes, ma'am, O'Rielly sure felt like proof of something all of a sudden. Dimdooly off somewhere and the Old Woman eyed O'Rielly and Callahan. said in sudden thought. "If Venus dames wanted to be loved so bad, why "Venus guys wasn't so busy playing war all the time," Callahan mumbled, Dames bossing both planets now, though, his old secret won't be one much longer. Venus dames could of let it out centuries ago themselves O'Rielly still had memories of the way he had felt about Trillium Venus guy kisses a Venus dame, his beards grabs her roundst the ears."

<question>:
O'Rielly starts to talk about "venus dames" unprompted and acting strangely. Why?

<options>:
A He's out of sorts from working on the controls. The heat got to him.
B He's had an experience with them in the past, and wants to discuss is with Callahan.
C It's the effect that Venus women have on Earth men. The woman's presence changes his focus.
D He's embarrassed about the controls malfunction and is trying to change the subject

<answer>:

C