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The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by Edith Wharton set in the 1870s in the northeastern United States. In the novel, Newland Archer and May Welland have just been married. They are spending a summer with May's relatives in Newport, Rhode Island. May is puzzled by Newland's lack of enthusiasm for Newport:
Which quotation from The Age of Innocence best illustrates the claim?
"The Newport Archery Club always held its August meeting at the Beauforts."
A
"May represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty."
B
"May herself could not understand Newland's obscure reluctance to fall in with so reasonable and pleasant a way of spending the summer."
C
"[Newland] had the feeling of unexplained excitement with which, on half-holidays at school, he used to start off into the unknown."
D