Candid: Free from reservation, disguise, or subterfuge Diffidently: Restrained or reserved in manner Tartly: Sharp in expression Irrational: Deprived of logic or reason Sceptical: Doubting, unsure. 1. I think that she means he is sympathetic, but he doesn’t quite know how to express this in a way that doesn’t seem patronising. 2. 3. Sdsds 4. Sdsd 5. It suggests that Rose hated her mother, even to the extent of not calling her, her mum. “Now I can take that picture down”