Prefeitura de Santana de Parnaíba 2026 — Questão 30 · Língua Inglesa

Leia o trecho a seguir, extraído do romance Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen.

His arrival was soon known at the Parsonage; for Mr. Collins was walking the whole morning within view of the lodges opening into Hunsford Lane, in order to have the earliest assurance of it; and after making his bow as the carriage turned into the park, hurried home with the great intelligence. On the following morning he hastened to Rosings to pay his respects. There were two nephews of Lady Catherine to require them, for Mr. Darcy had brought with him a Colonel Fitzwilliam, the younger son of his uncle, Lord—; and, to the great surprise of all the party, when Mr. Collins returned, the gentlemen accompanied him. Charlotte had seen them from her husband’s room, crossing the road, and immediately running into the other, told the girls what an honour they might expect, adding,— "I may thank you, Eliza, for this piece of civility. Mr. Darcy would never have come so soon to wait upon me."

AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Edited by Vivien Jones. London: Penguin Books, 2003. Página 199. 30.

Com base no trecho, assinale a alternativa que melhor interpreta a atitude de Charlotte ao afirmar: "I may thank you, Eliza, for this piece of civility. Mr. Darcy would never have come so soon to wait upon me."