The textual evidence that suggests Mrs. Mallard needed to be by herself after hearing the news is "She went away to her room alone." This indicates her desire for solitude following the initial shock and grief of her husband's reported death.
It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.
She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
What textual evidence suggests that Mrs. Mallard needed to be by herself after hearing the news?(1 point)
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"She went away to her room alone."
"She went away to her room alone."
"Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion."
"Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion."
"Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her."
"Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her."
"Josephine told her, in broken sentences."
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