Read the passage.
I was scared to death of those inkblots. I knew he was going to ask me to find the pictures and I knew I wouldn’t be able to. . . .
"All right, Charlie," he said, "you've seen these cards before, remember?"
"Of course I remember."
The way I said it, he knew I was angry, and he looked surprised.
–"Flowers for Algernon,"
Daniel Keyes
Why should parts of the passage be read at an increased pace?
to show strong emotion
to show that it is a short text
because dialogue is spoken quickly
because there is not much punctuation