1 disturb
3 occasionally
4 wisdom
6 confess
7 comfort
8 damp
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Friar is concerned that they might be moving too hastily.
What you can infer from this passage is that publication of "Ann Landers" ceased in 2002 (D).
Indeed, the text tells us that Esther Lederer, the legal author of "Ann Landers," died in 2002 without passing on the rights to her pen name—
which is also the name of her column—to anyone else ("she chose not to have another writer assume the pen name"). Since she did not allow any other writer to use the "Ann Landers" name, we can assume she didn't pass on the column's rights either.
Answer:
The prevalence and suffocating nature of negative emotions is the main conflict that drives the primary characters in The Secret Garden.