Letter choice B is your answer
And still between each awful pause,
From the high vault an answer draws,
In varied tone, prolonged and high,
<span>b. An extravagant, lustful, veteran widow.
The passage says that her features and clothes are bold and extravagant--she is wearing red stockings and has beautiful handkerchiefs, and her face has a lot of makeup on.
It also says that she has had five official husbands and many partners, but the narrator is not going to tell the reader just how many. </span>
Can you please provide the full question???
Figure of speech
its a saying actually "that was just a figure of speech"