Which quotation from The Age of Innocence best illustrates the claim? | Verbal SAT Question

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by Edith Wharton set in New York City in the 1870s. In the novel, Newland Archer attends an opera. The narrator describes the New York society to which Archer belongs as preferring familiarity over novelty:

Which quotation from The Age of Innocence best illustrates the claim?

“Though there was already talk...of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy [of Music in New York].”

“But, in the first place, New York was a metropolis, and perfectly aware that in metropolises it was ‘not the thing’ to arrive early at the opera.”

“To come to the Opera in a [carriage for hire] was almost as honourable a way of arriving in one’s own carriage.”

“‘M’ama...non m’ama...’ the prima donna sang, and ‘M’ama!’, with a final burst of love triumphant, as she pressed the dishevelled daisy to her lips.”