Are there any answer choices?
I haven't read Romeo & Juliet in years, but I will help you when my memory gets refreshed with the choices! Thank you!
I would go with C. Because the narrator is talking. The narrator want to have a lesson badly on water-reading. But Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is far to advanced for it and will not teach her it. So Mr. Bixby is being stubborn and will not give the lesson.
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