Which sentence from the passage best reflects the emotional change Mrs. Mallard experiences in the passage?
"When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone." (paragraph 3)
"But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky." (paragraph 9)
"There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully." (paragraph 10)
"And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome." (paragraph 12)
Lines 13 and 14:
13 There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.
14 And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!