阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。During my last stay in France, I got used to biking down a quiet road. Round a corner, I 1 a little house. In its yard, there was an elderly woman. I waved at her as I went by, and she must have thought I was some 2 tourist, because she didn't wave back.
The 3 thing happened the second day. But on the third day, the old woman 4 a wave, and by the fourth day, she nearly got out of her chair as I5 to her.
"Good morning, Madam!" It became a small ritual(礼节) between us.
On my last ride there, however, I didn't' t6 the lady there. Back at my house, I told Roger, the gardener, of my missed7
"She has a bad leg and has gone to the hospital for8 , " he said.
"Who is she? "I asked.
"The 9 road used to be a railway, and the lady's husband was once the stationmaster," Roger explained, "Several times a day, 10 a train passed, the couple would see passengers waving to them excitedly. 11 , the station was moved away. Everything is 12 except for this couple. She has 13 the trains and the waves. And you just brought them back to her14 ,"
By reaching out, in a way that cost me nothing, I had given more than I had15 .