The following passage is narrated by a sailor named Charlie Marlow. Select the best evidence to support the statement ‘The Company was filled with ambitious employees.’ There may be more than one correct choice.

‘I flew around like mad to get ready and before forty-eight hours, I was crossing the Channel to show myself to my employers and sign the contract. In a very few hours, I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre. Prejudice no doubt. I had no difficulty in finding the Company’s offices. It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going to run an over-sea empire and make no end of coin by trade.

‘A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar. I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to.’