3. Which line from the passage best explains why George hesitates before going onto the ice.
a. “George answered that he did not want to go on the ice, but the boys made him”
b. “...his father had forbidden him from going out onto the ice without special permission”
c. “George now began to see why this little word ‘no’ was so hard to pronounce.”
d. “ I really think it's the hardest of all the words.”