Comprehension Passage

Read the given extract carefully and answer the following questions


"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball. That is what Mrs. Ramsay wishes. Then suddenly a chink of that very old wall seemed to have been broken down. The two halves were laid bare. The urgency of the moment, the voice of the bird, the swing of the ball, the feel of Mr. Bankes’s hand holding hers and moving lightly on it, as if she were a scout advancing into the desert under the command of a leader, the excitement and the beauty of it, and then the solitariness, and the responsibility—all this came over her again, and she felt as if she had been running.’’

("To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf)

In the line "the excitement and the beauty of it, and then the solitariness, and the responsibility", what does 'it' primarily refer to?  

1
The act of throwing a ball 
2
The hand-holding with Mr. Bankes
3
The idea of marriage
4
The voice of the bird

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