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The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by Edith Wharton set in New York City in the 1870s. In the novel, Newland Archer arrives late to an opera performance, which the narrator attributes to Newland's enjoyment of anticipation:
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Which quotation from The Age of Innocence best illustrates the claim?
"To come to the Opera in a [carriage for hire] was almost as honourable a way of arriving as in one's own carriage."
A
"[T]hinking over a pleasure to come often gave [Newland] a subtler satisfaction than its realisation."
B
"When Newland Archer opened the door at the back of the club box the curtain had just gone up on the garden scene. There was no reason why the young man should not have come earlier, for he had dined at seven, alone with his mother and sister."
C
"No expense had been spared on the setting, which was acknowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared [Newland's] acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienna."
D