Which word best describes the narrators tone toward Dr. Heideggers visitors in the first paragraph

Music me focus more because it blocks out all the distractions around me, but i guess it depends on who you are

The details that best show evidence of tribal traditions are, "never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue” and "it has never been heard," was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.

The best answer in my opinion would be the last one. i hope this