Read these lines: "If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression, what is one to do? My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing." What can be inferred about the speaker's position?

1. 1. The first sentence gives one authority, a physician of high standing who is also her husband. 2. 2. The second gives a possible second opinion, her brother, also a physician of high standing. 3. 3. He says the same thing, so both authorities close ranks and there is nobody left to appeal to. 4. 4. Friends and relatives are described as being assured by him, not as taking her side, so option B fails. 5. 5. Two physicians have already pronounced on her, so option C contradicts the lines. _Source: The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)_