Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statements 6. The statements are jumbled up and from a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.

1. Reminiscences are the best conversation in the world since they warm the heart and excite the brain like wine.

A. But the third man is all the more conscious of being out in the cold, because these names and events are meaningless to him.

B. He smiles mechanically as the other laugh with dreamy eyes over incidents that convey all the fun of youth.

C. Conversation in a group of three persons where two are childhood friends and the third is a newer acquaintance is a classic case.

D. A conversation of this kind is bad indeed because it condemns the third man to the torture of compulsory silence.

1. Thus, the two old friends may end up antagonizing the third person.