I would like to say it is D because he winked at me when the doctors examined his hand that a sense of humor.
I believe the subject is Madame Magloire. Hope that helps!
Yet, I think that he feels a particular sadness of the state of affairs that envelop the modern body politic, "the unknown citizen." Auden sees a collusion between business, technology, and government as having reduced the complexity of the citizenry to patterned and predictable conformity.
SQRW- Survey, Question, Read and Write.