Read the following passage from "My Father Writes to My Mother."

Years went by. As my mother's ability to speak French improved, while I was still a child of no more than twelve, I came to realize an irrefutable fact: namely that, in the face of all these womenfolk, my parents formed a couple. One thing was an even greater source of pride in me: when my mother referred to any of the day-to-day incidents of our village life -- which in our city relative's eyes was very backward -- the tall figure of my father- my childhood hero - seemed to pop up in the midst of all these women engage in idle chit-chat on the age-old patios to which they were confined.

Which word best describes the speaker's tone in these lines?

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O awestruck

O haughty

O optimistic

O reverent