Read these lines from the excerpt again: he knew that a yearning glance fell upon him, now and then, through a film of tears, but he refused recognition of it. he pictured himself lying sick unto death and his aunt bending over him beseeching one little forgiving word, but he would turn his face to the wall, and die with that word unsaid. these lines from the excerpt explicitly or directly state that tom is ignoring his aunt's remorse on purpose trying to avoid making his aunt angry thinking about when his aunt dies feeling ill because he made his aunt upset