Read this excerpt from “the tell-tale heart” by edgar allan poe. then fill in the blanks in the paragraph that follows. true! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous i had been and am; but why will you say that i am mad? the disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — not dulled them. above all was the sense of hearing acute. i heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. i heard many things in hell. how, then, am i mad? hearken! and observe how healthily — how calmly i can tell you the whole story. it is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. object there was none. passion there was none. i loved the old man. he had never wronged me. he had never given me insult. for his gold i had no desire. i think it was his eye! yes, it was this! he had the eye of a vulture — a pale blue eye, with a film over it. whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees — very gradually — i made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. in these opening lines, the reader is presented with a narrator who wants to kill "the old man" because of his eye. the author uses the lines to present a conflict. based on this excerpt, this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in .