A. He lies to Kurtz's fiancé in order to give her comfort.
Explanation:
This is the final act that shows that indeed, Marlow has not been left completely callous by his journey through the heart of darkness as he thinks of Kurt's fiancé's feelings and decides to tell a lie so she wouldn't be in discomfort.
Her doctor believed that intellectual effort was making her ill. Women were not supposed to exert themselves much physically." was the social attitude of Gilman’s era that the excerpt best demonstrates.
