Select the correct answer.
Which is the best summary of the passage below?
"This was the commencement of a nervous fever, which confined me for several months. During all that time Henry was my only nurse. I
afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age, and unfitness for so long a journey, and how wretched my sickness would make
Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder." (Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Penguin Books, 1963. 60)
A.
His nerves caused him to develop a months-long fever. His friend Henry decided not to tell his family how sick he was to
keep them from worrying. He thought it would be best to nurse him himself. (Shelley 60)
O B.
Henry spared his family knowledge of how sick he was and nursed him himself. (Shelley 60)
C.
"he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder." (Shelley 60)
D. During all that time Henry was my only nurse. (Shelley 60)The merry mood of Christmas
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