Read the excerpt, spoken by Robert to Edna, from The Awakening.
“You have slept precisely one hundred years. I was left here to guard your slumbers; and for one hundred years I have been out under the shed reading a book. The only evil I couldn’t prevent was to keep a broiled fowl from drying up.”
Which best describes the underlying tone connotated by the words in the excerpt?
A insincere
B playful
C melancholy
D cynical
