50 points
Read the following sentence from the excerpt.

(10) In my room I sat down and tried calmly to reason out the matter. Here was I, Theobald Jack Pansay, a well-educated Bengal Civilian in the year of grace 1885, presumably sane, certainly healthy, driven in terror from my sweetheart's side by the apparition of a woman who had been dead and buried eight months ago.

Which definition would best define apparition in the passage?

A.
phenomenon
B.
the act of becoming visible
C.
an unusual or unexpected sight
D.
a ghostly figure