I am pretty sure it’s D, since they were “merely asked”.
Wisdom, acuity, common sense, and wit
<u><em>Mrs. Mallard is the protagonist of the story in “A story of an Hour” and she is a woman with a powerless heart condition. </em></u>
<u><em>Chopin doesn’t use her first name because she was refused her own identify for so many time, just at the end of the story we learn she was called Louise.</em></u>