When the man had finished, he filled his pipe and took his
comfortable time over a smoke. then he pulled on his
mittens, settled the car flaps of his cap firmly about his
ears, and took the creek trail up the left fork. the dog was
disappointed and yearned back toward the fire. this man
did not know cold. possibly all the generations of his
ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold
one hundred and seven degrees below freezing point. but
the dog knew, all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the
knowledge. and it knew that it was not good to walk
abroad in such fearful cold. it was the time to lie snug in a
hole in the snow and wait for a curtain of cloud to be
drawn across the face of outer space whence this cold
came. on the other hand, there was no keen intimacy
between the dog and the man. the one was the toil-slave
of the other, and the only caresses it had ever received
were the caresses of the whiplash and of harsh and
menacing throat-sounds that threatened the whiplash. so
the dog made no effort to communicate its apprehension
to the man. it was not concerned in the welfare of the man,
it was for its own sake that it yearned back toward the fire.
but the man whistled, and spoke to it with the sound of
whip-lashes, and the dog swung in at the man's heels and
followed after
which of these statements best describes the conflict in this passage?

a. the man does not realize that it is cold outside
b. the man and the dog do not know each other well
c. the man does not know what the dog does about the weather
d. the man wants to return to the fire, but the dog does not