Which quotation reveals a change in mother shipton’s character? (“the outcasts of poker flat”)

a: “…mother shipton saw it, and…hurled in that direction a final malediction.”

b: “he listened calmly to mother shipton’s desire to cut somebody’s heart out.”

c: “i’m going,’ she said, in a voice of querulous weakness, ‘but don’t say anything about it. don’t wake the kids.’”

d: “mother shipton eyed the possessor of ‘five spot’ with malevolence.”