From The Enchanted April Mrs. Wilkins longed to get up and open the shutters, but where she was was really so very delicious. She gave a sigh of contentment
and went on lying there looking round her, taking in everything in her room, her own little room, her very own to arrange just as she pleased
for this one blessed month, her room bought with her own savings, the
fruit of her careful denials, whose door she could bolt if she wanted to.
and nobody had the right to come in. It was such a strange little room, so different from any she had known, and so sweet. [...]
Well, this was delicious, to lie there thinking how happy she was, but outside those shutters it was more delicious still. She jumped up.
pulled on her slippers, for there was nothing on the stone floor but one small rug, ran to the window and threw open the shutters.
"Oh!" cried Mrs. Wilkins.
All the radiance of April in Italy lay gathered together at her feet. The sun poured in on her. The sea lay asleep in it, hardly stirring.
Across the bay the lovely mountains, exquisitely different in colour, were asleep too in the light and underneath her window, at the bottom of
the flower-starred grass slope from which the wall of the castle rose up, was a great cypress, cutting through the delicate blues and violets and
rose-colours of the mountains and the sea like a great black sword.
She stared. Such beauty, and she there to see it. Such beauty, and she alive to feel it. Her face was bathed in light. Lovely scents came
up to the window and caressed her. A tiny breeze gently lifted her hair. Far out in the bay a cluster of almost motionless fishing boats hovered
What do Mrs. Wilkins's surroundings reveal about her character?
O 1. Mrs. Wilkins's new surroundings reveal her distaste for the countryside.
02. Mrs. Wilkins's old surroundings reflect her natural capacity for enjoyment.
O 3. Mrs. Wilkins's new surroundings reflect her release from an emotional burden.
04. Mrs. Wilkins's old surroundings reveal her delight in unselfishly serving others.