Read the passage from the phantom tollbooth. It’s all in the way you look at things. In this passage Alec is defining

- "the die is cast; i have consented to return if we are not destroyed. thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; i come back ignorant and disappointed. it requires more philosophy than i possess to bear this injustice with patience. i have lost my hopes of utility and glory; i have lost my friend."

c is the answer because first she would blush to make the reader wonder why which they find out in the next line.

omniscient third person