Passage 11　“I heard a rumor,” Sa

Passage 11　“I heard a rumor,” Sangstrom said, “that you —” He turned his head and looked about him to make absolutely sure that he and the druggist were alone in the tiny drugstore. The druggist was a little man who could have been any age from fifty to a hundred. They were alone, but Sangstrom dropped his voice just the same.“— that you have a completely undetectable poison.”The druggist nodded. He came around the counter and locked the front door of the shop, then walked toward a doorway behind the counter. “I was about to take a coffee break, ”he said. “Come with me and have a cup.”Sangstrom followed him around the counter and through the doorway to a back room ringed by shelves of bottles from floor to ceiling. The druggist plugged in an electric coffee pot, found two cups and put them on a table that had a chair on either side of it. He motioned Sangstrom to one of the chairs and took the other himself.“Now, ”he said. “ Tell me. Whom do you want to kill, and why?”　“Does it matter?” Sangstrom asked. “Isn't it enough that I pay for —”The druggist interrupted him with an upraised hand. “ Yes, it matters. I must be convinced that you deserve what I can give you. Otherwise —”he shrugged.“All right,” Sangstrom said. “The whom is my wife. The why —” he started the long story. Before he had quite finished, the coffee pot had finished its task and the druggist briefly interrupted to get the coffee for them. Sangstrom finished his story.　The little druggist nodded. “Yes, I occasionally give out an undetectable poison. I do so freely; I do not charge for it, if I think the case is deserving. I have helped many murderers.”　“Fine,” Sangstrom said. “Please give it to me, then.”The druggist smiled at him. “I already have. By the time the coffee was ready I had decided that you deserved it. It was, as I said, free. But there is a price for the antidote.”Sangstrom turned pale. But he had expected — not this, but the possibility of a double-cross or some form of blackmail. He pulled a pistol from his pocket.　The little druggist chuckled. “You daren't use that. Can you find the antidote” — he waved at the shelves — “among those thousands of bottles? Or would you find a faster, more deadly poison? Or if you think I'm bluffing, that you are not really poisoned, go ahead and shoot. You'll know the answer within three hours when the poison starts to work.”“How much for the antidote?” Sangstrom growled. “Quite reasonable. A thousand dollars. After all, a man must live. Even if his hobby is preventing murders, there's no reason why he shouldn't make money at it, is there?”At first, how did the man react to the drugstore owner's question?
A、He was quite willing to tell him everything.
B、He wanted to kill the drugstore owner right away.
C、He wanted to run away at once.
D、He didn't want to tell the drugstore owner anything about the truth.
【正确答案】：D
【题目解析】：上册P295-P297（选文第4段）