A) In the case of King Merolchazzar's courtship of the Princess of the Outer Isles, there occurs a regrettable hitch.
B) She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows.
C) The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighboring princess, dispatches messengers with gifts to her court, beseeching an interview.
D) The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that everything buzzes along pretty smoothly.
E) Royal love affairs in olden days were conducted on the correspondence method.
(2003)
Statement E talks about the "correspondence method" for love affairs. When we go through the statements, the author explains the "correspondence method" in statement C and D. Logically, we infer that D follows C i.e. we have combination ECD.
Hence, the correct answer is option C.