What they talked about, I have no idea … . It was no doubt whatever a young married couple spending their first time privately i
n each other’s company in the long, probably harried day would talk about. It was the murmur of their voices, the back-and-forth, the unnoticed stretching away of time between my bedtime and theirs, that made me bask there at my distance. What I felt was not that I was excluded from them but that I was included, in – and because of – what I could hear in their voices and what I could see of their faces in the cone of yellow light under the brown-scorched shade. In this excerpt, Welty’s diction best suggests she is writing to what possible audience? A. young married couples who want to improve their relationship B.young people who read C. thoughtful readers interested in writing and literature D. students in college
