Which sentence from “the two friends” best represents the primary theme of the story?

a.
and a kind of superstitious terror was superimposed on the hatred which they felt for this unknown and victorious people.

b.
[they] found themselves in agreement on the point that men would never be free.

c.
“and fishing! ah! nothing but a pleasant memory.”

d.
paris was blockaded, starved, in its death agony.