Read this excerpt from “my last duchess” by robert browning:

—and if she let
herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set
her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse,
—e'en then would be some stooping: and i choose
never to stoop. oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,
whene'er i passed her; but who passed without
much the same smile? this grew; i gave commands;
then all smiles stopped together.

what conclusion can you draw about the speaker's character?

a) he seems passive
b) he is extremely arrogant
c) he has a stooping gait
d) he is very somber