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, 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. The best that could be said for Matilda Penshaws was that she was poaching in a strictly forbidden territory! something of a paradox. She was thirty-three years old, certainly not paths across her face and now she needed certain remedial undergarments 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 charming, a faithful Don Juan, a man who had been everywhere and tasted of every worldly pleasure and who now wanted to sit on a porch and talk about it all to Matilda. why Matilda liked the country better than the city, particularly on a Matilda not in the least. She had been known to say that there are over a billion men in the world, a goodly percentage of whom are eligible 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 Ursula Johns College and Radcliff had yielded her Masters degree, yet Matilda was an avid follower of the pen pal columns. She would read Matilda gasped and ran into her car. She started the gears and pressed names which, through a system known only to Matilda, had an affinity Matilda would write, and she often told her mother, the widow Penshaws, That particular night, Matilda pulled her battered old sedan into the rocking on the glider and Matilda said hello. The first thing the widow Penshaws did was to take Matilda's left hand Matilda smiled. "It wouldn't have worked out, Ma. He was too darned Victorian prude and even less of a man than the others." "But, Matilda, that's your fifth broken engagement in three years. It You don't fall in love, Matilda—no one does. Love osmoses into you slowly, without you even knowing, and it keeps growing all the time." Matilda admired her mother's use of the word osmosis, but she found Matilda switched her bed lamp on and dabbed some citronella on each an elderly man interested in ornithology wanted a young chick correspondent interested in the same a young, personable man wanted an editorial position because he thought he had something to offer the editorial world and— Matilda read the next one twice. Then she held it close to the light Matilda even liked the sound of the name. But mostly, she had to admit Matilda could see that. But she had never minded an egotistical man, at least not when he had something about which he had a genuine reason to be egotistical. The man sounded as though he would have reason indeed. He only wanted the best because Matilda sighed happily as she put out the light. The moon shone in through the window brightly, and at such times Matilda generally would Matilda was not yet that far gone in years or appearance. Dressed Matilda got out of bed at seven, tiptoed into the bathroom, showered "Mother," gasped Matilda. Matilda always gasped when she saw something Then the widow Penshaws told Matilda that she could never hope to sneak only mother could cook. Matilda moodily thanked the widow Penshaws. Matilda hummed Mendelssohn's Wedding March all the way. It was her favorite piece of music. Once, she told herself: Matilda Penshaws, you are being premature about the whole thing. But she laughed and thought which hung too far down on his nose. Matilda knew he would peer over "Hello," said Matilda. The stereotype grunted and peered at her over his glasses. Matilda Matilda kept the alarm from creeping into her voice. She muttered an stereotype, and he scratched his bald head. Then he told Matilda almost Matilda felt bad, but she had no intention of returning home this 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 On the other hand—why not? Why couldn't the librarian help her? Why hadn't she thought of it before? Certainly a man as well-educated as Matilda cleared her throat. "Pardon me," she began. "I'm looking for—" Matilda jumped as if she had been struck strategically from the rear. Matilda thought a little flattery might be effective. "Only ten," she Matilda reached into her pocket-book and withdrew a five dollar bill. "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 Matilda assured her that it was, and, breathlessly, she wrote down the 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 that she really might have liked. Instead, someone she could only regard as a menial met her, and when he asked had she come in response to the advertisement, she nodded eagerly. A little doubtful now, Matilda thanked him and watched him leave. He closed the door softly behind his retreating feet, but Matilda's ears 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 For a time Matilda paced back and forth in her room, and of what was Matilda gasped once and felt about to gasp again—but by then her salivary glands were working overtime, and she ate her meal. The fact 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. ordinary -looking. She almost would have preferred "I—do." Matilda had had visions of her prince charming sitting back Matilda, accustomed to social chatter, gave him a gambit. "I must admit I was surprised when I got exactly what I wanted for "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. eager as he spoke, high-pitched, almost like a child's, and now he seemed disappointed. He smiled, but it was a sad smile, a smile of 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 "I don't know what they told you," Matilda said. "But this is what "He's neither," the librarian contradicted. "Perhaps he is slightly eccentric by your standards, but really, my dear, he is neither." "What do you mean?" 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

<question>:
What best summarizes Matilda’s attitude?

<options>:
A She’s too easily trusting of strangers and the unknown.
B She is a lonely, unhappy person looking for an outlet via the Pen Pals column.
C She’s naive, and doesn’t understand relationship.s
D She’s naive, and a romantic who craves excitement.

<answer>:

D