Read the following passage from "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather and answer
questions 31–35.

1 When he awoke, it was three o’clock in the afternoon. He bounded
up with a start; half of one of
2his precious days gone already! He spent more than an hour in dressing,
watching every stage of his
3toilet carefully in the mirror. Everything was quite perfect; he was
exactly the kind of boy he had always
4wanted to be.
5 When he went downstairs Paul took a carriage and drove up Fifth
Avenue toward the Park. The
6snow had somewhat abated; carriages and tradesmen’s wagons were hurrying
soundlessly to and fro
7in the winter twilight; boys in woolen mufflers were shoveling off the
doorsteps; the avenue stages
8made fine spots of color against the white street. Here and there on the
corners were stands, with
9whole flower gardens blooming under glass cases, agains