Which is the best objective summary of this passage?

A.
A husband comes home and asks his wife to play a game. They put their kids to bed and then begin to fight over whether or not the music in the game is any good. They remember that the first time they heard the opera, they enjoyed it, but now, it makes them laugh.
B.
A husband's and wife's memories inspire the husband to rewrite the music, and his wife listens proudly as he plays the new song. Neither of them really enjoys the songs, and they end up thinking back to their memories of the opera. He usually comes home from work and plays music with his wife, so she is used to it.
C.
A husband comes home with music from an opera he saw in his youth. He plays it with his wife, but it doesn't live up to his fond memories and makes him feel old. Much to his relief, the husband eventually realizes that the musical composition he brought home is not the same one that he heard when he was young. This realization helps him feel young again.
D.
A very nice husband comes home and plays the piano for his unappreciative wife as she sings songs from an opera they saw long ago. The wife thinks the music is terrible, and the husband's feelings get easily hurt. He spends too much time thinking back to how it sounded when he first heard it. His wife hears him still playing and is proud of how much he has improved.
August Strindberg (1849–1912) was a Swedish playwright and novelist. In this short story, he references Gounod and Bellini, composers who wrote operas based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, like many other composers of the time. Strindberg was also known to have been influenced by Shakespeare himself. (1) One evening the husband came home with a roll of music under his arm and said to his wife: (2) "Let us play duets after supper!" (3) "What have you got there?" asked his wife. (4) "Romeo and Julia, arranged for the piano. Do you know it?" (5) "Yes, of course I do," she replied, "but I don't remember ever having seen it on the stage." (6) "Oh! It's splendid! To me it is like a dream of my youth, but I've only heard it once, and that was about twenty years ago." (7) After supper, when the children had been put to bed and the house lay silent, the husband lighted the candles on the piano. He looked at the lithographed title-page and read the title: Romeo and Julia. (8) "This is Gounod's most beautiful composition," he said, "and I don't believe that it will be too difficult for us." (9) As usual his wife undertook to play the treble and they began. D major, common time, allegro giusto. (10) "It is beautiful, isn't it?" asked the husband, when they had finished the overture. (11) "Y—es," admitted the wife, reluctantly. (12) "Now the martial music," said the husband; "it is exceptionally fine. I can remember the splendid choruses at the Royal Theatre." (13) They played a march. (14) "Well, wasn't I right?" asked the husband, triumphantly, as if he had composed "Romeo and Julia" himself. (15) "I don't know; it rather sounds like a brass band," answered the wife. (16) The husband's honour and good taste were involved; he looked for the Moonshine Aria in the fourth act. After a little searching he came across an aria for soprano. That must be it. (17) And he began again. (18) Tram-tramtram, tram-tramtram, went the bass; it was very easy to play. (19) "Do you know," said his wife, when it was over, "

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