Which statement about mr. bennet is best supported by the following passage (paragraphs 29-31)?
“you mistake me, my dear. i have a high respect for your nerves. they are my old friends. i have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.”
“ah! you do not know what i suffer.”
“but i hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into the neighbourhood.”
a) his psychological disorder has him believing that his wife’s nerves are living, breathing people.
b)
he uses his sense of humor to defuse tension with his wife.
c)
he doesn’t take his wife seriously at all.
d)
a day doesn’t pass where he doesn’t think about other women.