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

<passage>:
“I wasn’t—playing. Let’s not go up there,” Lorraine begged. “I don’t think the Brandts live there She was beginning to suspect that Lorraine knew more about the Brandt estate than she was telling. Lois kept on driving along the narrow, gravelly “You’re right, Lorraine,” announced Judy, coming in to serve dessert to the two friends she had invited would be fun to explore it, though,” Lois said. “But if there are new people living here they’ll never give us permission.” “We might explore it without permission,” Judy suggested daringly. “Come on!” she urged her friends as Lois parked the car in a cleared place beside the I’m afraid we won’t be very welcome.” “I don’t think they’ll welcome us, anyway. I do know who they are,” Lorraine admitted. “You remember Roger Banning from school, don’t you? I’ve seen him around here. His family must have acquired sudden wealth, or else he’s just working on the estate.” “Then you’ve been here lately? Why didn’t you “Please,” Lorraine said, a pained expression clouding “It wasn’t important,” Lorraine replied evasively. “I was just out for a drive.” house you moved into? You were the one who tracked down the ghosts in the attic and the cellar and goodness knows where all. You’ve been chasing what she was or how she spoke to me is more than I know. If my grandparents knew, they weren’t telling. And now they’re both dead and I can’t ask them. They left me a lot of unsolved mysteries along with Like Peter, her FBI husband, she preferred facts to gossip. “Forgery, I guess. He stole some checkbooks from this house. Maybe I’ll find the answers to some of Judy was almost sorry she had mentioned it. She would have preferred to forget. She liked to think she was a good judge of character, and she had taken Dick Hartwell for a quiet, refined boy who would never stoop to crime. “I don’t see what all this has to do with the fountain,” wasn’t in the mood for digging up old mysteries, “I don’t know what to think. You’re the one who seems to know the answers, but you’re not telling. Hiding your face back there gave you away. You’ve Her thoughts were what had made it so hard, she for some reason, you were afraid he would see you. Why, Lorraine? Why didn’t you want to be recognized?” Lorraine hesitated a moment and then replied evasively, “People don’t generally enter private confessed now as she reviewed everything that had happened. She just couldn’t help resenting the fact went off on a vacation by themselves. What did they think she would do? that her parents left her every summer while they estates without an invitation. That’s all.” “I’d better turn the car around,” Lois decided, “in case we have to leave in a hurry. I don’t expect went to stay with her grandmother Smeed, who scolded and fussed and tried to pretend she wasn’t glad to have her. “You here again?” she had greeted her that summer, walking up to the door of the palatial Farringdon-Pett mansion was still ahead of her. On the lawn a But all that was in the future. If anyone had told the freckled-faced, pigtailed girl that she would one pretend the fountain in the picture was filled with all the tears lonely girls like herself had ever cried. “But that would make it enchanted!” she had suddenly exclaimed. “If I could find it I’d wish—” A step had sounded on the stairs. Judy remembered it distinctly. She had turned to see her grandmother She and Lorraine had listened to this much of what day, her grandparents had taken her to a fountain A voice had answered, although she could see no one. “You found plenty to cry about back at your grandmother’s house,” the mysterious voice had reminded her. “Weren’t you crying on my picture up there in the attic?” the fountain!” Judy remembered “Wish wisely,” the voice from the fountain had away. “You see,” she explained, “I made the mistake of having just one best friend. There wasn’t anybody Lorraine seemed unusually quiet and thoughtful. “Why?” asked Lorraine. “Do you still think it was waking up and wondering if the voice in the fountain “And then what happened?” Lorraine urged her. “Yes, yes. Go on,” entreated Lois. “I didn’t dream you’d kept anything that exciting a secret. Why didn’t you try to solve the mystery?” forgot about the fountain. Honestly, Lois, I don’t Lois said with a giggle. “I’ve seen lots nicer fountains.” Lois and Lorraine had finished their dessert while Judy was telling them the story of the fountain. Somehow, she wasn’t hungry for hers. She had tasted it too often while she was making it. Lois watched in amusement as the cat lapped up Leaving the table, they all started upstairs with the cat bounding ahead of them. In modernizing her grandparents’ house to suit her own and Peter’s tastes, Judy had seen to it that the old stair door was removed. But there was still a door closing off the reached it first and yowled for Judy to open it. “He can read my mind. He always knows where I’m going,” Judy said as the door creaked open and the cat shot through it. A moment later a weird rolling noise came from the floor above. “Come on. There’s nothing up here to be afraid of,” Judy urged her friends. room at the top of the last flight of stairs. “So am I,” Lorraine admitted. “I’m not superstitious about black cats, but they are creepy. Does true that easily she’d be living in a castle. But would she?” Judy wondered. “When I first remember this and Judy both questioned Lorraine, but that was all was of a jealous disposition. Was the green-eyed monster coming between her and her handsome husband, Arthur Farringdon-Pett? Until now they had sure it isn’t now. Let’s go,” Lorraine said suddenly “Where?” she asked. “To the fountain? I’d love “Not quite all the way,” Lorraine objected. “The to her friends. “I do remember a road turning off one would see it and follow the path to the fountain. seen that character who drove down this road and, She and Lois both argued that it would be better to inquire at the house. Lois knew Helen Brandt slightly. “She’d be glad to show us around. This way it looks as if we’re planning a crime,” Lois said as they started off in the blue car she was driving. and said if they did find the fountain she thought explain what happened afterwards. When I woke up in the hammock I was alone in the garden. Horse, wagon, grandparents—all had disappeared.” “How could they?” asked Lois. driving home along this road. You see, I thought my grandparents had left me in the garden for a surprise and would return for me. I told you I was all alone. There wasn’t a house in sight.” was driving off without me.” “I wouldn’t depend on it,” Lorraine said as they “Watch out!” Judy suddenly exclaimed. “There’s another car coming.” As Lois swerved to avoid the oncoming car, Lorraine ducked her head. She kept herself hidden behind Judy until the car had passed. The man driving it was a stranger to Judy, but she would remember his hypnotic, dark eyes and swarthy complexion for a “What’s the matter with you two?” asked Lois when the car had passed. “Aren’t you a little old for playing hide and seek?”

<question>:
Why did Lorraine duck her head when another car passed by the group on their way to the fountain?

<options>:
A She had recently forged checks and people were looking for her.
B She was afraid someone would report that they were trespassing.
C She feared that they were going to collide and she was covering her face from impact.
D She knew who the new owner of the estate was and didn't want to be seen.

<answer>:

D