阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
The girl stopped and looked as if she might run away in surprise, but instead stood there regarding Montag with eyes so dark and shining and alive that he felt he had said something quite wonderful. But he knew his mouth had only moved to say hello.
“Of course,” he said, “you're our new neighbor, aren't you?”
“And you must be”—she raised her eyes from his professional symbols “— the fireman.” Her voice trailed off.
“How strangely you say that.”
“I'd—I'd have known it with my eyes shut,” she said, slowly.
“What—the smell of kerosene? My wife always complains,” he laughed. “You never wash it off completely.”
“No, you don't,” she said, in awe.
He felt the girl's nervousness and laughed, “Kerosene, is nothing but perfume to me.” Then he continued, “What are you doing out so late wandering around? How old are you?”
There was only the girl walking with him now, her face bright as snow in the moonlight, and he knew she was working his questions around, seeking the best answers she could possibly give.
“Well,” she said, “I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. Isn't this a nice time of night to walk? I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night walking, and watch the sun rise.”
They walked on again in silence and finally she said, thoughtfully, “You know, I'm not afraid of you at all.”
He was surprised. “Why should you be?”
“So many people are afraid of firemen, I mean. But you're just a man, after all ... Do you mind if I ask? How long have you worked at being a fireman?”
“Since I was twenty, ten years ago.”
“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?”
He laughed. “That's against the law! It's fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn them to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.”