Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options.

The old woman prodded him once more. 'I'll look after the customers. Take the lamp. Go to the railway tracks. Who knows... who knows...'
The old man explained, 'I've gone almost blind and this woman wants me to go in the dark looking for the boy. The other day I fell down near the railway tracks when I went searching for him and my knees are still aching and bruised. My chest hurts too.... Listen daughter, we weren't always like this. It's the floods. It's a pity that we have had to take shelter by the highway and wait for customers day after day! We were respectable people. We had two granaries full of paddy. Even strangers were sure of a meal with scented rice and kaoi fish. We come from a Borbarua family who had the power to punish criminals by crushing their kneecaps. But my father was kind-hearted.... But our paddy fields, which were as dear to me as my own flesh and blood, producing gold and pearls, are no more.
The old woman was furious. 'Why are you digging up those old graves? I'll myself go to the railway tracks to see....'
'Shut up, old woman. How many times have we heard this talk of his coming back? But nothing! He didn't come back or show his face to us.'