The answer is C, We. I hope this helped, let me know if you need further explanation.
Men had much greater economic freedom than women.
Society considered women to be lesser than men.
I’m just guessing since I don’t know what passage you are referring to.
B. But only so an hour
the word only indicates that "an hour" is considered a short time period for the flower, and so it represents "the youth" of it being a flower before it becomes like the rest
