Select the correct answer, Based on this excerpt from "The Glft of the Mag!" by O. Henry, what can you Infer about the characters Jim and Della?
In the vestibule below was a letter-box Into
which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.
Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."
The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former perlod of prosperity when Its possessor was being pald $30 per week. Now,
when the Income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking serlously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr.
James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young,
already Introduced to you as Della. Which Is all very good.
O A.
Della and Jim lIved In a poor nelghborhood but aspired to move to a nicer one.
O B.
Della and Jim were deeply conscious of what other people thought of them.
Della and Jim belleved that JIm's salary would soon Increase agaln.
O D.
Della and Jim loved each other despite their financial difficultles.
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