18 i fear that the reader will not believe, yet it is positively a fact, that there stood mrs. bullfrog, with her glossy ringlets curling on her brow, and two rows of orient pearls gleaming between her parted lips, which wore a most angelic smile. she had regained her riding habit and calash from the grisly phantom, and was, in all respects, the lovely woman who had been sitting by my side at the instant of our overturn. how she had happened to disappear, and who had supplied her place, and whence she did now return, were problems too knotty for me to solve. there stood my wife. that was the one thing certain among a heap of mysteries. nothing remained but to her into the coach, and plod on, through the journey of the day and the journey of life, as comfortably as we could. as the driver closed the door upon us, i heard him whisper to the three countrymen, "how do you suppose a fellow feels shut up in the cage with a she tiger? "
which detail in paragraph 18 suggests the main idea that the narrator thinks of his own wife, mrs. bullfrog, as a "she tiger"?
a) two rows of orient pearls gleaming between her parted lips
b) in all respects, the lovely woman who had been sitting by my side
c) she had regained her riding habit and calash from the grisly phantom
d) there stood mrs. bullfrog, with her glossy ringlets curling on her brow