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正确答案：C
解析：推断题。由题干定位至最后一段。首句指出“He was going home much earlier than usual，straight from the City and without calling at his club．”，由此可以判断，通常他下班后会去俱乐部，故[C]为答案。第五句和第六句谈到“He had married five years ago．At the time all his acquaintances had said he was very much in love；and he had said so himself，frankly，because it is very well understood that every man falls in love once in his life…”，但没有提及他和太太是否为一见钟情，排除[A]；第四句指出“But his connections，education and intelligence were strictly on a par with those of the men with whom he did business or amused himself．”，可知他打交道的人是他的生意伙伴或让他高兴的人，[B]与原文不符；文中没有提到Alva是否有孩子，或者是否希望有下一代，排除[D]。