The five girls had their refreshments at the
kitchen table, and it was while Rosie was
showing the sisters her trick of swallowing peach
slices without chewing (she chased each slippery crescent down with a swig of tea) that her father brought his empty teacup and untouched saucer
to the sink and said, "Come on, Rosie, we're
going home now."
"Already?" asked Rosie.
"Work tomorrow," he said.
He sounded irritated, and Rosie, puzzled, gulped one last yellow slice and stood up to go, while
the sisters began protesting, as was their wont.
"We have to get up at five-thirty," he told them, going into the front room quickly, so that they
did not have their usual chance to hang onto his hands and plead for an extension of time.
–“Seventeen Syllables,”
Hisaye Yamamoto
Which mood is most created in this passage?
excited
hopeful
tense
tired
