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

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acid. Carol's hand was on his arm, Carol's thin and breathless voice shook as she said, "A drink—all the drinks you want." "One will do. And you." No, don't fill it up first at that fountain. And Frances, stop bouncing your ball. You'll lose it through the bars, and a polar bear may get it and not want to give it back." tendency to confuse one language with another." and ice cream, and other delicacies favored by the young. Manto wanted to win easy popularity by treating a few of the other children, but Palit put his girlish foot down. No use arousing suspicion. Even as it was— "Gee, your father gives you an awful lot of spending money," amusement and at first did not answer. Then she began to skip around her companion and George is so kind as to entertain hear Mr. George. Now, if Mr. chant, "I know a secret, I know a secret." some time, Miss Burton did not notice her. make herself inconspicuous. For "No, children, we mustn't do anything we can't do well. That wouldn't make a good impression. perhaps, too, Mr. George will be "Why don't you ask him to?" Before the other little girl could "Yes, children, I never told you, some other teacher had been so careless as to lose one of her sober." "I don't see how they can take you drunk," replied Carol. "Why go through with it at all? Why not call the whole thing Burton, I had to go to the bathroom, and then when I came out—" "Yes, yes, I know." annoyance. Imagine losing two children and not noticing it right right for being so careless. "All right, you may stay with I'd give up drinking." She made a face. "Don't talk us until we find a policeman—" "Why not? I've walked around dressed as worse. A drunk." "Drunks don't attract attention. They're too ordinary." "But a drunken lion hunter—that's something special." He went into the next room and began being taught." "I suppose I could think how if I had a drink inside me." "Then you'll have to do without thinking." There was an expression should let her. I really don't." "Please, Miss Burton, it was an accident. I won't do it again." that would enable him to brave the wrath of man, beast, or devil. "All right, if you're good, and Mr. George. It's only two now, in his eye which indicated cause no trouble. But we still courage without end, a courage "How do I look?" annoy him. Mr. George is a famous movie actor, and his time when so many grown-up people are anxious to hear him, but we mustn't take advantage of his kindness." "But he likes children, Miss dragon you can—" he's just crazy about them." "I know, but—he's not in good health, children. They say he got jungle fever in Africa, where he was shooting all those lions, and boys, who also whispered to each other, in manly superiority, and pretended to find amusement in hurt him to sign an autograph!" "Oh, yes, it would," asserted one little girl. "He shakes. When he has an attack of fever, his hand shakes." being noticed. Palit said savagely, "Why did you tell her that I could act too?" the presence of so many of the his misfortune, and do our best not to tire him out." In the bright light that flooded "Stop it, you fool, before you cause trouble!" face wore an expression of distress. He groaned dismally, and the afternoon breakfast table, "Very well, Palit. Did I tempt me to face that gang of kids without a drink to pick me up?" "You've had your drink," said you?" and efficient. At the moment she was being more efficient than attractive, and she could sense his resentment. "That's all you get. Now, lay off, and try to be reasonably sober, for a change." My God, he thought, how can they keep their voices so high "They're about the only audience in the world that won't spot you as a drunk. God knows where I could find any one else so long? My eardrums hurt already. who'd believe that your hand But forget that. If you're good—you'll get a drink afterwards." But one more drink wouldn't hurt me." She said wearily, but firmly, "I don't argue with drunks, Curt. I just go ahead and protect them from themselves. No drinks." "Afterwards?" "Will it be one of those occasions "I can't watch you the way a mother watches a child." The contemptuous reply sent himself, to be able to pretend he liked this. grin radiating from his confident, rugged face. The cheers rose to a shrill fortissimo, but actor, and he managed to look properly modest as he listened. The remarks about his knowledge He watched her move about the room, clearing away the Carol. She was slim, attractive, dishes from his meager breakfast. Curt George's handsome, manly too?" "No. Not unless you forget that you're a drunk, and remember that you're a man. Not unless drank your way through Africa—" "Because you weren't there with me!" "—with hardly enough energy quiet now, breathless with interest, and he welcomed the respite from shrillness he had won for his ears. "But those kids! They'll squeal enthusiastically to indicate joy. Thank God that's over with, he thought. Now for those drinks—and he didn't mean drink, singular. Talk of being useful, he'd certainly been useful now. you sober." that drives me to drink. And when I think of having to face those dear little kiddies with "But it's your contempt for me "I'd gladly forego that to see "Mr. George," she said, in a suggestible person." of the first dramatic teacher he had ever had, the one who had almost ruined his acting career. "Mr. George, I can't tell you by giggles which made the entire George made us happy, children?" childish conversation seem quite normal. But Palit was in no "The issues are important no more than fair to repay you laughing mood. He said, in his own language, "You're getting careless, Manto. You had no be able to resist either." He hadn't expected this, and he repressed a groan. Mercifully, "So am I. But I control myself." He grinned the thanks he didn't feel. To think that he could take this, while sober as a judge! What strength of character, what will-power! "Still, if the temptation were great enough, I don't think you'd then, Miss Burton stood upright and recited herself. That was the worst of all. He out for my best interests, Carol. "They would have thought it a joke. And I think I got out of enough to make me resist." told himself. An adult making a fool of herself is always more painful than a kid. And that getting jittery, Palit. We've been away from home too long." are, Mr. George. Wouldn't that never did anything useful. Why, if thanks to his being here this afternoon, those kids lost the ambition to go on the stage, the suspect their danger." This time, Manto's giggle was expressed to a certain degree how he felt. "They cannot possibly suspect. We have been all then, from the audience, an outburst of terrified screaming such as he had never heard. The bristles rose at the back of his from he didn't know, but there they were, eyes glaring, manes "Good gracious, children, what an actor playing a scene rehearsed a thousand times, the gun leaped to his shoulder, and now its own roar thundered out a challenge to the roaring of the they were dead and dissolving as if corroded by some invisible

<question>:
Why was Mr. George upset by the repayment from the children?

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A It took the spotlight off of him
B He had another show to do and was running late
C The performance was very bad
D It was preventing him from getting his drink

<answer>:

D