Passage 1: Excerpt from Chapter 4 of Jane Eyre In this section from the end of Chapter 4, Jane Eyre is still a child and is taking leave of her guardian, Mrs. Reed, who has treated her with great unkindness.

1 I gathered my energies and launched them in this blunt sentence—

2 “I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed; and this book about the liar, you may give to your girl, Georgiana, for it is she who tells lies, and not I.”

In paragraph 2 of Passage 1, Jane exclaims, “I am not deceitful.” What reason does Jane have for using the word deceitful?

A)to explain that she is not lazy

B)to explain that she is not truthful

C)to explain that she is not forgetful

D)to explain that she is not dishonest