Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

so from every window and door in the house where they were living happily ever after they now saw the trees and sky through bars, and when the little boy’s pet cat tried to climb in by the fanlight to keep him company in his little bed at night, as it customarily had done, it set off the alarm keening through the house.

what inference can you make about the couple’s life from the passage?

a. they want to protect their community.
b. they are living happily ever after.
c. they are becoming more isolated socially and culturally.
d. they are about to make several major changes in their lives.