Which is punctuated correctly?

A)
Over the noise the waitress yelled “May I take your order?”

B)
Over the noise the waitress yelled, “May I take your order?”

C)
Over the noise the waitress, yelled “May I take your order?”

D)
Over the noise, the waitress yelled “May I take your order?”

Abraham lincoln and the republicans frequently declared that they sought only to prevent the expansion of slavery and not to overturn slavery where it existed. yet immediately after lincoln’s election seven southern states marched out of the union, without waiting to see what lincoln’s policies would be. why? were southern fears of lincoln rational or irrational?