Lines 40-41: draw a conclusion about how the drummer boy feels at this point

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Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

Which three lines in this expert from anita desai’s games of twilight clearly show an omniscient narrator