Question

Read the passage from "The Wedding Night" and answer the question that follows.

You know how I love the sea. I declared to my husband that I could not retire until I had seen it.

What does retire mean in this sentence?
go to bed
quit working
retreat
withdraw

Answer 1

Answer:

• Withdraw

Explanation:

In this story the arrival of a chimney sweep brings a wedding dinner at the lady of the hour's home to an early end. As the range puts on something else and continues to wipe out the fireplace in the kitchen, gradually stirring his way up the smokestack shaft multiple times, the lady leaves the kitchen in shame.

After the breadth completes, he puts on something else once more, has breakfast, and conveys to the lady of the hour, who is situated outside, an endowment of a little bunch of edelweiss. The family quickly speaks with the breadth after his dinner; at that point he leaves, after which the lady of the hour puts the edelweiss bundle under pictures of her dead relatives.

Answer 2

Answer:

The meaning of retire in this sentence? is "withdraw".

Explanation:

The lines that we have in this excerpt describe the admiration and love that the character feels for the sea, and the sentence " I could not retire until I had seen it." represents that deep attachment to the sea that the woman does not want to withdraw her self from that place until she sees that one thing she deeply loves.