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Definitely intriguing characters. When characters are intriguing you feel for them and are interested in the story more.
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Steve is defensive especially now that Don has pointed out that nobody knows what he has been doing in the basement. The evidence suggests that Steve is going to get angry at Steve for accusing him of causing all of the strange goings on in the neighborhood. To Don, this anger is more evidence that Steve is up to something.
I believe the correct answer is a duel between Laertes and Hamlet.
Laertes had many reasons to want to kill Hamlet, the most important of which are the facts that Hamlet killed Polonius, Laertes' father, and indirectly led to Ophelia, Laertes' sister, committing suicide. So the excerpt above talks about their future duel in which Hamlet says he would kill Laertes in only three hits.
The clairvoyant principal always seemed to know when trouble was afoot.
