In this excerpt from robert cormier’s “the moustache,” which pair of sentences shows the main character dealing with an internal conflict?
i was about to protest—i had never heard of a chesterfield, for crying out loud. but i stopped. be patient with her, my mother had said. humor her. be gentle.
we were interrupted by an attendant who pushed a wheeled cart into the room. “time for juices, dear,” the woman said. she was the standard forty- or fifty-year-old woman: glasses, nothing hair, plump cheeks. her manner was cheerful but a businesslike kind of cheerfulness. i’d hate to be called “dear” by someone getting paid to do it. “orange or grape or cranberry, dear? cranberry is good for the bones, you know.”
my grandmother ignored the interruption. she didn’t even bother to answer, having turned away at the woman’s arrival, as if angry about her appearance.