The correct answer is (He thinks she is worried but optimistic about her husband’s health.)
Assuming that this is referring to the same passage that was posted before with this question, the editorial writer's main point is that "The mayor and city council have made a serious mistake in selecting a site for a new community theater" since he expresses this more than once.
Fiction is about things that did not happen
Nonfiction is about real world events or things that did happen
