Read the following excerpt from The Age of Innocence to determine mood. "To the general rellef, the Countess Olenska was not present in her grandmother's drawing-room during the visit of the
betrothed couple. Mrs. Mingott said she had gone out which, on a day of such glaring sunlight, and at the "shopping
hour," seemed in itself an Indelicate thing for a compromised woman to do. But at any rate it spared them the
embarrassment of her presence, and the faint shadow that her unhappy past might seem to shed on their radiant future.
The visit went off successfully, as was to have been expected. Old Mrs. Mingott was delighted with the engagement,
which, being long foreseen by watchful relatives, had been carefully passed upon in family council; and the engagement
ring, a large thick sapphire set in invisible claws, met with her unqualified admiration."
Which word best describes the mood of this paragraph?
O gloomy
quarrelsome
amiable
embarrassing