Respuesta :
Answer:
curious
Explanation:
According to the excerpt given, the narrator describes how they were on their way to church with their father before they were stopped by the Laniers and as the grown-ups talked, the little children beckoned to Stacey and as she went over to meet them, she was joined by the narrator and two other children.
The tone of the excerpt can be described as curious because the other little children wanted to know why Stacey was beckoned.