Question

from vanity fair
the old haunts, the old fields and woods, the copses, ponds, and gardens, the rooms of the old house where becky had spent a couple of years seven years ago, were all carefully revisited by her. she had been young there, or comparatively so, for she forgot the time when she ever was young—but she remembered her thoughts and feelings seven years back, and contrasted them with those which she had at present, now that she had seen the world and lived with great people, and raised herself far beyond her original humble station.
\i have passed beyond it, because i have brains,\ becky thought, \and almost all the rest of the world are fools. i could not go back, and consort with those people now, whom i used to meet in my fathers studio. lords come up to my door with stars and garters instead of poor artists. . . . i have a gentleman for my husband, and an earls daughter for my sister in the very house where i was little better than a servant a few years ago. but am i much better to do now in the world than i was when i was the poor painters daughter, and wheedled the grocer round the corner for sugar and tea? suppose i had married francis who was so fond of me—i couldnt have been much poorer than i am now. heigho! i wish i could exchange my position in society, and all my relations for a snug sum in the three per cent. consols.\ for so it was that becky felt the vanity of human affairs, and it was in those securities that she would have liked to cast anchor.
(from vanity fair by william makepeace thackeray)
at which point in the passage does beckys tone change from contemptuous to regretful?

1. when she forgets \she ever was young\
2. when she realizes \i could not go back\
3. when she notes \i was little better than a servant\
4. when she asks if she is \much better to do now in the world\

Explanation:

Becky's tone is contemptuous when she thinks the world is full of fools and she has risen above her past. The tone shifts to regretful when she questions if she is truly better off now, which is expressed in the line "But am I much better to do now in the world than I was when I was the poor painter's daughter...".

Answer:

1. when she asks if she is "much better to do now in the world"