Read the following excerpt from the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost:

He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Which best describes the speaker's tone in this passage?

A. He admires his neighbor's helpfulness in wanting to repair the wall.

B. He is skeptical about his neighbor's idea of what makes good neighbors.

C. He is pleased that the neighbor is building a fence even though there are no cows.

D. He resents his neighbor's desire to keep an unnecessary wall between them.

Mending Walls by Robert Frost is a poem about neighbors who have a stone wall which separates the speaker and the neighbor's property. During spring these two meet to repair the wall and considers it to be a nuisance to repair wall every spring.

the tone of the speaker changes later "Spring is the mischief in me." Thus he becomes skeptical about his neighbor's idea of what makes good neighbors. The speaker feels that there is no need for the wall between them. He thinks that there is no reason for the wall to be mended as "There are no cows to be contained." However, the neighbor resorts to its values of the old adage that "Good fences make good neighbors."