Select the correct text in the passage.
Which detail best characterizes the woman in the excerpt as a lonely person? a
adapted excerpt from Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
She thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her lifethe honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the full sweetness of it, it
would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with thundering names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most pleasant.
In post beds behind blue silken curtains to ride slowly up steep road, listening to the song of the postilion re-echoed by the mountains, along with the
bells of goats and the muffled sound of a waterfall; at sunset on the shores of guifs to breathe in the perfume of lemon trees; then in the evening on
the villa-terraces above, hand in hand to look at the stars, making plans for the future. It seemed to her that certain places on earth must bring
happiness, as a plant peculiar to the soil, and that cannot thrive elsewhere. Why could not she lean over balconies in Swiss chalets, or enshrine her
melancholy in a Scotch cottage, with a husband dressed in a black velvet coat with
long tails, and thin shoos, a pointed hat and frills? Perhaps she
would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds?
Words failed her-the opportunity, the courage.
If Charles had but wished it, if he had guessed it, if his look had but once met her thought, i seemed to her that a sudden plenty would have gone
out from her heart, as the fruit falls from a tree when shaken by hand. But as the familiarity of their life became deeper, the greater became the gur
that separated her from him
Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting
emotion, laughter, or thought. He had never had the curiosity, he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go
the theater to see the actors from Paris. He
could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day he could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel.