Read the excerpt from The Land.

"You?" questioned my daddy. "Paul, you did this?"

"Yes, sir," I said, looking straight at him. "I did."

My daddy took a breath deep, then walked around Ghost Wind, inspecting him long and hard this time, before he came back and stood right in front of me. "Paul," he said to me, "you're a good horseman, one of the best I've ever seen, and you know how to handle Ghost Wind. Now you going to stand here and tell me you rode this horse and let this happen to him?"

I looked straight up at my daddy and lied again. "Yes, sir."

How does this dialogue advance the plot of the story?

A: It sparks a friendship between Paul and Mitchell.
B: It sparks a friendship between Willie Thomas and Paul.
C: It causes an argument between Paul and Mitchell.
D: It causes an argument between Paul’s father and Mitchell.