Question

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?



He seems passive.



He is extremely arrogant.



He has a stooping gait.



He is very somber.