What does the following excerpt most strongly reveal about the British government’s willingness to grant voting rights to women (paragraph 13, Modern Age background reading?

Women composed another disaffected group that began to seek greater political power. The suffrage movement in Britain, which had long been working peacefully to secure votes for women, took a bold new direction after Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. Under the leadership of Pankhurst and her daughters, British suffragettes used unusual publicity stunts to call attention to their demands. They pelted government officials with eggs, chained themselves to lampposts, burned railroad cars, and smashed the windows of fashionable department stores. The British government finally relented and gave women over thirty the right to vote in 1918; ten years later, the voting age for women was lowered to twenty-one.
Question options:

A)

Women still do not have the right to vote in the United Kingdom.

B)

They immediately gave way to women’s rights groups’ demands once the suffragettes turned violent.

C)

They were enthusiastic about pushing women’s rights forward.

D)

Their reaction was slow and grudging.