8. After Tom makes it back to the window of his apartment, but not inside, it reads, "A movement from his desk caught his eye and he saw that it was a thin curl of blue smoke; his cigarette, the
ash long, was still burning in the ashtray where he'd left it- this was past all belief - only a few minutes before."
Question: What can the reader infer from this passage?
O Tom is worried about the unattended cigarette causing a fire in his apartment.
Tom was only walking on the outside ledge for a few minutes.
Tom feels like he was on the outside ledge for a lot longer than he was.
Tom was only walking on the outside ledge for a few minutes AND Tom feels like he was on the outside ledge for a lot longer than he was.