“Here is the truth,” she said. “Your father’s work making household repairs for the townspeople has fed us ’til now, but he’s gone. Laundering clothes brings in a bit, but not enough. We’re all strong and hard workers with a lot of stamina, so I think we could farm if we had some land. And there’s land in Oklahoma.” “We have nothing to lose,” said Margaret, who was sixteen, and like her mother, she was both practical and brave. Her brother, Benjamin, fourteen, and her sister, Lizzie, eleven, agreed. So the family began preparing for the journey. Lily worked day and night doing laundry and was able to make a bit more than the family needed to buy food.

Which sentence is an example of indirect characterization?

(A) like her mother, she was both practical and brave
(B) “We’re all strong and hard workers with a lot of stamina,”
(C) Lily worked day and night doing laundry
(D) So the family began preparing for the journey.