Read the extract below carefully and answer the question

A : Then to be plain with you .......

I expect the young gentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day.

I have his father's letter, in which he informs me his son is set out and that he intends to follow himself shortly after.

B : Indeed! I wish I had known something of this before. Bless me, how shall I behave?

It's a thousand to one

I shan't like him, Our meeting will be so formal, and so like a thing of business that I shall find no room for friendship or esteem.

The news of the suitor's visit makes Speaker B

• A happy
• B sad
• C anxious
• D pessimistic