Excerpt from dombey and son--charles dickens dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. son about eight-and-forty minutes. "the house will once again, mrs dombey," said mr dombey, "be not only in name but in fact dombey and son; " and he added, in a tone of luxurious satisfaction, with his eyes half-closed as if he were reading the name in a device of flowers, and inhaling their fragrance at the same time; "dom-bey and son! " a transient flush of faint surprise overspread the sick lady’s face as she raised her eyes towards him. "he will be christened paul, my-mrs dombey-of course." she feebly echoed, "of course," or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again. "his father’s name, mrs dombey, and his grandfather’s! i wish his grandfather were alive this day! there is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing junior," said mr dombey, making a fictitious autograph on his knee; "but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. it doesn’t enter into the correspondence of the house. its signature remains the same." and again he said "dombey and son," in exactly the same tone as before. those three words conveyed the one idea of mr dombey’s life. which sentence offers the strongest support that dombey valued a close connection with his son? group of answer choices

a) dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age.

b) those three words conveyed the one idea of mr dombey’s life.

c) a transient flush of faint surprise overspread the sick lady’s face as she raised her eyes towards him.

d) she feebly echoed, ’of course,’ or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again.