Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
They were mad, all right, and now Matilda wondered if, actually, they were husband and wife. It could readily be Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] All she wanted was a mate and she had the gumption to go out and hunt one down. But that meant Matilda would seek the happy medium. poaching in a strictly forbidden territory! maybe the madness at which she would have scoffed ten or even five years ago. Matilda was also looking for a husband. This, in itself, was not unusual—but Matilda was so completely wrapped up in the romantic fallacy of her day that she sought a prince talk about it all to Matilda. bachelors, and that the right one would come along simply because she had been waiting for him. Matilda, you see, had patience. She also had a fetish. Matilda had received her A.B. from exclusive Matilda would write, and she often told her mother, the widow Penshaws, that it was in this way she would find her husband. The widow Penshaws impatiently told her to go out and get dates. That particular night, Matilda pulled her battered old sedan into the The first thing the widow Penshaws did was to take Matilda's left hand in her own and examine the next-to-the-last finger. "I thought so," she said. "I knew this was coming when I saw that look in your eye at dinner. Where is Herman's engagement ring?" college reunion was this weekend and he had already turned down the invitation." The widow Penshaws nodded regretfully. "That was thoughtful of Herman to hide his feelings." "Hogwash!" said her daughter. "He has no true feelings. He's sorry that he had to miss his college reunion. That's all he has to hide. A stuffy Victorian prude and even less of a man than the others." "But, Matilda, that's your fifth broken engagement in three years. It ain't that you ain't popular, but you just don't want to cooperate. You don't in love, Matilda—no one does. Love osmoses into you Matilda admired her mother's use of the word osmosis, but she found nothing which was not objectionable about being unaware of the impact of love. She said good-night and went upstairs, climbed out of her a gratifying selection of pen pals. She shut off the shower, brushed her teeth, gargled, patted herself dry with a towel, and jumped into bed, careful to lock the door of her Matilda switched her bed lamp on and dabbed some citronella on each Matilda read the next one twice. Then she held it close to the light to herself, it was the flavor of the wording. This very well could be it . Or, that is, Matilda could see that. But she had Matilda was not yet that far gone in years or appearance. Dressed Matilda got out of bed at seven, tiptoed into the bathroom, showered in both her uppers and lowers this early in the morning. "I'm fixing breakfast, of course...." Then the widow Penshaws told Matilda that she could never hope to sneak Matilda hummed Mendelssohn's Wedding March all the way. It was her that if she was, she was, and, meanwhile, she could only get to Cedar Matilda kept the alarm from creeping into her voice. She muttered an out that no one did: Matilda tried the general store, the fire Matilda felt bad, but she had no intention of returning home this but she knew that she'd rather not return home and face the widow Penshaws, at least not for a while yet. The widow Penshaws meant well, but she liked to analyze other people's mistakes, especially Matilda's. Accordingly, Matilda trudged wearily toward Cedar Falls' small and Then Matilda frowned. Twenty years from now, this could be Matilda Matilda jumped as if she had been struck strategically from the rear. "Was this the way?" she demanded. Matilda was not very good at this Matilda nodded shrewdly and added a twin brother to the bill in her that the land no longer was being tilled. The house itself had fallen to ruin. This surprised Matilda, but she did not let it keep her be left far behind. Matilda congratulated herself for what she thought had been her ingenuity, and which now turned out to be something which she had in common with five other women. You live and learn, thought Matilda. And then, quite annoyedly, she berated herself for not having been the first. Perhaps the other five all were satisfactory she wouldn't be needed perhaps she was too late.... As it turned out, she wasn't. Not only that, she was welcomed with open A little doubtful now, Matilda thanked him and watched him leave. He closed the door softly behind his retreating feet, but Matilda's ears had not missed the ominous click. She ran to the door and tried to open it, but it would not budge. It was locked—from the outside. It must be said to Matilda's favor that she sobbed only once. After that she realized that what is done is done and here, past thirty, she wasn't going to be girlishly timid about it. Besides, it was not her overwrought nerves. At that point she remembered what the servant had said about food and Matilda gasped once and felt about to gasp again—but by then her that it was precisely what she would have wanted could, of course, be attributed to coincidence, and the further fact that everything was He had a point there, but Matilda hardly even had time to fix her hair. compare notes. She would not admit even to herself that she was disappointed with it was just that he was so She hoped she wasn't being too formal. But, then, there was no sense in assuming that he would like informality. She could only wait and see and adjust her own actions to suit him. Meanwhile, it would be best to "I—do." Matilda had had visions of her prince charming sitting back than she did. He waited, however, as if wondering what to say, and Matilda, accustomed to social chatter, gave him a gambit. "Yes," said Matilda vaguely. Perhaps it might be better, after all, if Matilda said, "Beg pardon?" Almost at once, Matilda's educational background should have told her wanted to believe in him and the result was that it took until now for her to realize it. "Stop making fun of me," she said. resignation, and he said, "Very well. I'm wrong again. You are the sixth, and you're no better than the other five. Perhaps you are even more outspoken. When you see my wife, tell her to come back. Again she Matilda could do nothing but leave the room, walk back through the remembered what she had promised the librarian. In her own way, the aging woman would be as disappointed as Matilda, but a promise was a broom-stick figure, rigid. But now when she saw Matilda she perked up in detail. She did this first because it was a promise, and second because she knew it would make her feel better. "What do you mean?" "Did he leave a message for his wife?" Matilda didn't understand. She didn't understand at all, but she told Matilda did not say a word. One madman a day would be quite enough for loses his temper, he tries to convince me that any number of females of the particular planet would be more than thrilled if they were given the opportunity just to listen to him. "But he's wrong. It's a hard life for a woman. Someday—five thousand, ten thousand years from now—I will convince him. And then we will "Well, if Haron wants me back, then I have to go. Have a care, my dear. If you marry, choose a home-body. I've had the experience and you've

<question>:
Why does Matilda break off her engagement with Herman?

<options>:
A She’s looking for someone more adventurous.
B He was too “stuffy” for Matilda.
C She doesn’t want to settle for him, as she’s too fixated on the idea of romance she has.
D She’s afraid of commitment, as is hinted by this being another broken engagement for her.

<answer>:

B