Read this excerpt from a night to remember. perhaps the colonel was distracted by his simultaneous efforts to look after mrs. churchill candee, his table companion in the dining saloon. mrs. candee was returning from paris to see her son, who had suffered the novelty of an airplane accident, and she must have been attractive indeed. just about everybody wanted to protect her. based on the excerpt, mrs. candee is best described as anxious. confused. mysterious. popular.

popular

Explanation: she was being protected by guards while others weren't

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answer :

the idiom "pride goes before a fall" means that being too proud causes one to make mistakes that eventually lead to failure or downfall.

in the stranger's story in the "the storyteller," bertha had won three medals for obedience, punctuality and good manners. she was really proud of her medals and pinned them to her dress and wore them everywhere she went so that everyone would know how good she was. in the end, these symbols of her excessive pride cost her her life. when she was hiding from the wolf in the bushes, it was the clinking of her medals that alerted his attention towards her presence and lead to her death.