Which one of the sentence sequences in the given options creates a coherent narrative?
- I could not bring myself to knock.
- There was a murmur of unfamiliar voices coming from the big drawing room and the door was firmly shut.
- The passage was dark for a bit, but then it suddenly opened into a bright kitchen.
- I decided I would rather wander down the passage.
- $\text{(iv), (i), (iii), (ii)}$
- $\text{(iii), (i), (ii), (iv)}$
- $\text{(ii), (i), (iv), (iii)}$
- $\text{(i), (iii), (ii), (iv)}$