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The best answer is A.
although B and C are correct, they mostly miss the point of the sentence.
The answer is D the characters use a lot of metaphors to talk about the sorrow that takes over the minister's soul, His fiancee is showing her worry saying that rumor has it he is a sinner.
Option A, B, and C are not possible because A takes the elements in a literal form, B says she thinks he is innocent but it is expressed in her words that she worries about what people say so that demonstrates that she doesn't fully believe in him and C says that she is the one in sorrow and since the first comment in this conversation they talk about the minister's pain.
Someone who is behaving in a malicious way might spread untrue information about another person.Just knowing the fact that the way of their own behavior has been acting, this would then be very dependable of what they would then do. Sense their behavior would be the fact that they would be acting up, this would then mean that their information that they would be spreading out would then be untrue.