Read the excerpt below and answer the question. mrs. hutchinson craned her neck to see through the crowd and found her husband and children standing near the front. she tapped mrs. delacroix on the arm as a farewell and began to make her way through the crowd. the people separated good-humoredly to let her through; two or three people said, in voices just loud enough to be heard across the crowd, “here comes your missus, hutchinson,” and “bill, she made it after all.” mrs. hutchinson reached her husband, and mr. summers, who had been waiting, said cheerfully, “thought we were going to have to get on without you, tessie.” mrs. hutchinson said, grinning, “wouldn’t have me leave m’dishes in the sink, now, would you, joe? ” and soft laughter ran through the crowd as the people stirred back into position after mrs. hutchinson’s arrival. in this excerpt from shirley jackson’s “the lottery,” mr. summers’s response is an example of what