Read these lines: "The ancient teachers of this science promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little, but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places." How is nature presented in the last sentence?

1. 1. Nature is called she, which gives her a person's pronoun rather than a thing's. 2. 2. She is said to work in hiding-places, so she is holding something back. 3. 3. The philosophers penetrate those recesses and show her working, so the secret is taken from her. 4. 4. A teacher would explain her own laws willingly, which is the opposite of hiding, ruling out option C. 5. 5. Nothing in the lines has nature resisting or fighting, so option D adds a struggle that is not there. _Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)_