Social Studies, 22.02.2022 15:50 keke1871

Read the paragraph from "The Wife" by Washington Irving, What is most likely the meaning of trepidation as it is used in the
paragraph?

-resentment

-enthusiasm

-conviction

-apprehension

“The Wife”:
I must confess, notwithstanding all I had said, I felt some
concern about the result. Who can calculate on the fortitude of
one whose life has been a round of pleasures? Her gay spirits
might revolt at the dark, downward path of low humility suddenly
pointed out before her. Besides, ruin in fashionable life is
accompanied by so many galling mortifications, to which, in
other ranks, it is a stranger. In short, I could not meet Leslie, the
next morning, without trepidation. He had made the disclosure.

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