The words from the excerpt that convey the tone is Clutching and suppressed.
The word clutching here means to hold or grasp with one's hand normally strongly or suddenly. The suppressed is put the other down forcefully.
On the other hand, suppressed under psychology means the reaction of stopping oneself from the feeling of something. The synonyms of suppressed include defeat, subdue and extinguish.
According to given excerpt, the narrator firstly owing her for the beautiful cake but after the problem of air conditioning arose he felt very sad he grasp the doorjamb and defeat a sob.
The tone of this paragraph was easily spoken by the narrator in order to define their issues and problems arise due to the issue starts for air conditioner.
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