Question

Read the following excerpt from The Age of Innocence, and identify the narrator’s tone regarding Countess Olenska’s behavior.

"To the general relief, the Countess Olenska was not present in her grandmother's drawing-room during the visit of the betrothed couple. Mrs. Mingott said she had gone out; which, on a day of such glaring sunlight, and at the "shopping hour," seemed in itself an indelicate thing for a compromised woman to do."

confusion
relief
annoyance
disapproval

Answer 1

The answer would be the first one

Answer 2

the tone is confusion

you can tell because the narrator is quite perplexed by why the Countess was not present in her grandmother's room, and why she had gone out during the sunlight at noon ("shopping hour") , since it is strange for her a married woman like her to do so.