Doyle wrote and produced a play based on the story. It premiered at the Adelphi Theatre<span>, </span>London<span> on 4 June 1910, with H. A. Saintsbury as Sherlock Holmes and </span>Lyn Harding<span> as Dr. Grimesby Roylott. The play, originally called </span>The Stonor Case<span>, differs from the story in several details, such as the names of some of the characters.</span>
D. Past It fits the sentence best, because you don't go through the school and the supermarket to get somewhere, you got past it.
"Because their words had forked no lightning they" - iambic pentameter
"A lonely impulse of delight" - iambic tetrameter
"No likely end could bring them loss" - iambic tetrameter
I think the first or the second phrase works the best