Read the passage below from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat." Then, mention the sentence that tells readers that there may be a connection between the narrator's murder of Pluto and the fire that destroyed his house.
The whole house was blazing. It was with great difficulty that my wife, a servant, and myself, made our escape from the conflagration. The destruction was complete. My entire worldly wealth was swallowed up, and I resigned myself thenceforward to despair.I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. But I am detailing a chain of facts—and wish not to leave even a possible link imperfect.