In her letter, surja writes, “in picking up a little girl, have you forgotten me? many unripe things are esteemed. people like green guavas, and green cucumbers; green cocoa-nuts are cooling. this low-born female is also, i think, very young, else in meeting with her why should you forget me? joking apart, have you given up all right over this girl? ” which statement best explains why surja makes this comment to her husband? surja suggests that her husband does not realize the value of kunda. surja is concerned that the young girl may be too young to be a potential partner for her husband. surja acknowledges that her husband may choose to have more than one wife. surja feels anger toward her husband for asking her about kunda.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator