Read the sentence from the passage. “The way he looked at you from under his eyebrows, not eagerly, nor furtively, but with a self‑possessed, competent air, quite like a captain scanning a horizon from the bridge, watching the shifting crowds from one of the little stone circles anchored out in the rush of the boulevards,—a look of authority backed by a sense of unlimited power.”

Which feeling is suggested by the use of the word competent?

A Disdain
B Hostility
C Assurance
D Kindness