Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
To all who didn't know him, Curt George was a "That'll do," said Miss Burton firmly. "Now, let's get along the little girls, their ages ranging apparently from nine to eleven, all of them chirping to the lion house. And please, make faces at you? Always remember past the line of cages. "Now, now, girls," called Miss Burton cheerily. "Don't scatter. I can't keep my eye on you if you get to be considerate to they followed the old mother hen away like a flock of chicks as others." too far away from me. You, Frances giggled. "Oh, Miss Burton, do you think the polar bear would want to play catch?" do to avoid being suspected!" "It never hurts to take precautions. to show my skill, I assure "But not of the psychology of children. And they, if you remember, are the ones who will you. It's that by now I have a tendency to confuse one language the tree hid silence. Then there came from beneath the branches the chatter of girlish voices, and two little girls skipped merrily away. Miss Burton did not at first notice that now she had an additional two children in her children, do not make faces at "Do you think you will be able to keep your English straight?" asked one of the new little girls. brood. "Come together, children, I have something to say to you. Soon it will be time to go in and around her companion and George is so kind as to entertain chant, "I know a secret, I know a secret." make herself inconspicuous. For some time, Miss Burton did not There was no better way to notice her. remember her lines." were left behind. At times the children scattered, but Miss Burton knew how to get them together again, and not one was "No, children, we mustn't do anything we can't do well. That wouldn't make a good impression. The polar bears, the grizzlies, "I know, Miss Burton!" cried Frances, a dark-haired nine-year-old with a pair of glittering people. She can act like animals." The laughing, girlish eyes evaded a dirty look from the little eyes that stared like a pair Frances smirked at the approbation. "I wish my father would take me too," replied the other little girl, with an air of wistfulness. "Why don't you ask him to?" Before the other little girl could answer, Frances paused, cocked "You, Miss Burton?" her head slightly, and demanded, Miss Burton coughed modestly. "Who are you? You aren't in our "Miss Hassel? Who is she? Is she in our school?" "I don't know," said the other class." P. S. 77—" "Oh, Miss Burton," screamed Frances. "Here's a girl who isn't in our class! She got lost from her own class!" "Really?" Miss Burton seemed out—" "Yes, yes, I know." A shrill cry came from another section of her class. "Oh, Miss Burton, here's another one who's lost!" The other little girl was pushed forward. "Now, who are you ?" Miss Burton asked. Miss Burton made a sound of two children and not noticing it right away. The other teacher must be frantic by now, and serve her "Why not? I've walked around dressed as worse. A drunk." "Drunks don't attract attention. They're too ordinary." mimic people to their faces. A big girl like you, too. How old "The women who swoon at you will swoon at anybody. Besides, I don't consider that making nitwits "I'm sorry, Miss Burton. And "How can I be useful, Carol? "Oh, Miss Burton, please don't If she's going to be an actress, I'll bet she'd love to see Curt George!" "Please, Miss Burton, it was that would enable him to brave the wrath of man, beast, or devil. "How do I look?" an accident. I won't do it again." "I feel terrified. I don't know "Miss Burton," called Barbara If they were boys it wouldn't be so bad, but a bunch of little girls!" "They'll grow up to be your annoy him. Mr. George is a famous how I'm going to face those kids. fans, if you're still alive five "Now, children, I've warned you about that. You mustn't with giggles. And beneath the "But he likes children, Miss of whispers, of girlish confidences exchanged, of girlish hopes that would now be fulfilled. giggles was a steady undercurrent and by some mistake, a class of boys, who also whispered to each other, in manly superiority, and pretended to find amusement in the presence of so many of the fairer sex. said Miss Burton complacently. "Stop it, you fool, before you Curt George's handsome, manly cause trouble!" muttered, "What a head I've got, what a head. How do you expect me to face that gang of kids Now, lay off, and try to be reasonably sober, for a change." "But those kids! They'll squeal and giggle—" "They're about the only audience weak characters to reform them." the lions. How would you like to "Because you weren't there with me!" "—with hardly enough energy to let them dress you in that hunter's outfit and photograph you as if you were shooting be able to see you again—" Screams of exultation, shrill as ever, small hands beating enthusiastically to indicate joy. said Frances enviously. "Is he when I think of having to face those dear little kiddies with nothing inside me—" George, not a drop." The two little girls drew apart from the others and began to whisper into each other's ears. The whispers were punctuated by giggles which made the entire George made us happy, children?" "Yes, Miss Burton!" came the business imitating her expression." so suggestive. And I'm a very Miss Burton collected her Next, Miss Burton introduced fool of herself is always more painful than a kid. And that affected elocutionist's voice gave shrinking right out in public like that." "I did it skillfully. Not a A voice shrilled, "Miss Burton?" "Don't quibble." "I don't intend to. Some of these children have very sharp eyes. You'd be surprised at what without handing over your soul to the devil? Agree how nice it would be to have those sly little brats with faces magnified on enough to harm us." "You never can tell about such things. Wise—people—simply they wouldn't be able to act rapidly "Please, Miss Burton," said Doris. "I don't know how to act. I can't even imitate a puppy. Really I can't, Miss Burton—" "Come, come, mustn't be shy. "Now, what are we going to act, children?" said Frances. "She doesn't even him, and to Miss Burton. She'd Miss Burton had an idea. "I no longer mere camouflage, but expressed to a certain degree how he felt. "They cannot possibly one has suspected. And even if danger really threatened, it would be easy to escape. I could take the form of the school teacher herself, of a policeman, of any one in authority. However, "I'll be careful. After all, I shouldn't want us to lose these children. They're so exactly the kind we need. Look how inquiring they are, how unafraid, how if to leap. Where they had come they were, eyes glaring, manes ruffled, more terrifying than any he had seen in Africa. There they were, with the threat of Miss Burton's voice said, from he didn't know, but there 'No, Miss Burton.'" a challenge to the roaring of the wild beasts, shouted at them in beasts in some ways, now that they were dead and dissolving as if corroded by some invisible

<question>:
What was likely Miss Burton's real motivation for "entertaining" Curt George?

<options>:
A To make Mr. George unhappy with the high screams
B To thank him for coming
C To show him her own acting skills
D To oust the shapeshifters hiding as girls

<answer>:

C