Read the dialogue from James Joyce's "Araby." "O, I never said such a thing!" "O, but you did!" "O, but I didn't!" "Didn't she say that?" "Yes. I heard her." "O, there's a... fib!" This conversation would

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Read the dialogue from James Joyce's "Araby."

"O, I never said such a thing!"
"O, but you did!"
"O, but I didn't!"
"Didn't she say that?"
"Yes. I heard her."
"O, there's a... fib!"

This conversation would be most natural between which of these groups of people?

A brother and sister bickering.
Two young men teasing a young woman.
A mother about to punish a child.
A group of elderly people struggling to remember something.