Read the story. Robert liked to go fishing more than anything else in the world. He kept his fingers crossed every day, hoping that his mother would want to go fishing when she got home from work. There were many times she did want to go, so they would pack up their poles and take a picnic dinner down to the river. Robert knew that someday he would be able to fish as well as his mother, but for now he was happy just to watch her, and sometimes he would catch a fish himself. She always seemed to know just where to throw the line, and sometimes she would even be able to say how big the next fish she caught would be. "She must be the best fish-catcher in the world," he thought Which words best help to tell how much Robert wanted to go fishing? 01. "She must be the best fish-catcher in the world." O2 - someday he would be able to fish as well as his mother..." 3. "...he was happy just to watch her..." "He kept his fingers crossed every day..."