Question

"How could there be a well! In The Dark Walk? That she had visited year after year? Haughtily she said, 'Nonsense.'" Why is Julia described as "haughty" in the quotation?

Answer 1

Julia is described as "haughty" because she is being arrogant and disdainful; her words make her sound as though she thinks herself to be superior in knowledge. 

Answer 2

Because she is being arrogant

Step-by-step explanation:

Julia has done the Dark Walk run since she was a little girls and she remembers it absolutely well, so she considered impossible and even more ridiculous that there could be a well in such dark and scary place, trying not to fall in what she thought was a trick she contemptuously said "Nonsense" as a way to tell them she was not being foolish.