Rewriting the first paragraph in a reported speech, identify...

Read the fragment below and answer the following two questions.

“It’s all right, fella. I’m not going to hurt you,” the boy said to Fortinbras.

“Sit, Fort,” Charles Wallace commanded, and Fortinbras dropped to his haunches in front of the boy, a low growl still pulsing in his dark throat.

(L’Engle, Madeleine. A wrinkle in time)