Which choice best helps show the mood in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "The Monkey's Paw."
But the days passed, and expectation gave place to
resignation - the hopeless resignation of the old,
sometimes miscalled, apathy. Sometimes they hardly
exchanged a word, for now they had nothing to talk about,
and their days were long to weariness.
•the hope that Herbert will come home
•the use of such words as "expectation" and "hardly
exchanged"
•the number of days that pass after Herbert's death
•the use of such words as "hopeless resignation" and
"weariness"