Question

bliss by katherine mansfield (adapted excerpt) \bliss\ is the story of a young wife who seems to find much joy in her life with her husband and baby girl. (1) although bertha young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at—nothing—at nothing, simply. (2) what can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though youd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your heart, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe? ... (3) oh, is there no way you can express it without being silly and disorderly? how idiotic civilization is! why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? (4)
o, that about the fiddle is not quite what i mean,\ she thought, running up the steps and feeling in her bag for the key—shed forgotten it, as usual—and rattling the letter - box. \its not what i mean, because——thank you, mary\—she went into the hall. \is nurse back?\ 27 select the correct text in the passage. which excerpt from the passage shows how berthas character develops the theme that letting go can be rewarding? (25) how absurd it was. why have a baby if it has to be kept—not in a case like a rare, rare fiddle—but in another womans arms? (26) \oh, i must!\ said she. (27) very offended, nanny handed her over. (28)
ow, dont excite her after her supper. you know you do, mm. and i have such a time with her after!\ (29) thank heaven! nanny went out of the room with the bath towels. (30)
ow ive got you to myself, my little precious,\ said bertha, as the baby leaned against her.

Explanation:

To determine the correct excerpt, we analyze each option:

• Option (25): Questions the idea of keeping the baby with another woman, not about letting go being rewarding.
• Option (26): A simple statement, no theme development.
• Option (27): Nanny's action, not Bertha's character development.
• Option (28): Nanny's warning, not related to letting go's reward.
• Option (29): Nanny leaving, not showing Bertha's development.
• Option (30): Bertha says "Now I've got you to myself" after Nanny (who was keeping the baby) leaves. This shows Bertha letting go of the earlier concern (from excerpt 25) and finding reward in being with the baby, developing the theme that letting go (of the worry about the baby being with Nanny) can be rewarding.

Answer:

(30) "Now I've got you to myself, my little precious," said Bertha, as the baby leaned against her.