Reread paragraph 15, then respond to the question below: from The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
I smiled, -for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search - search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues. while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.
Why does the narrator seat himself and the officers in the room where the body is hidden?
• He is feeling boastful of how well he hid the body.
• He is going mad and wants to torture himself with guilt.
• He is worried he will give away the body's location otherwise.
• He is convinced it is the only way to keep the officers from finding the body.