On the twenty-sixth the blending of the incense balls was finished and Her Majesty gave them out to her
women. Everyone who had helped prepare them gathered round. On the way back to my quarters I looked
in at Lady Saisho's room, only to find that she was asleep. She lay with her head pillowed on a writing box,
her face all but hidden by a series of robes, dark red lined with green, purple lined with dark red, over which
she had thrown a deep crimson gown of unusually glossy silk; she made an entrancing scene.
– The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu
The Empress gave incense balls to
a. the royal family.
b. the peasants.
C.
passing travelers.
d. the women who attended her.
Please select the best answer from the choices provided