Question

please help is the answer A?

Answer 1

coffeelover
Read this excerpt from "The Diamond Necklace":

"The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction."

Which word from the introduction suggests there will be tension between the girl character and the clerk?

Little
Loved
Understood
Slip

Answer 2

it sounds like it would be.
or maybe it could be slip