Tone is an author's attitude toward a topic In this excerpt, the author conveys a tone that could best be described as A suspicious. B mysterious. C bewildered D infuriated. During the period following the birth of Shakespeare's twins until the early 1590s, no records remain to indicate what Shakespeare was doing; some have called this period "The Lost Years." All that is known with certainty is that at some point after 1585 the young Shakespeare left Stratford and his family behind and moved to London.