Read the excerpt, spoken by Roger to Edna, from The Awakening. “You have slept precisely one hundred years. I was left here to guard your slumbers; and for one hundred years I have been out under the shed reading a book. The only evil I couldn’t prevent was to keep a broiled fowl from drying up.” Which best describes the underlying tone connotated by the words in the excerpt? insincere playful melancholy cynical