Based on the passage (paragraph 51) which of the following responses best
explains why the townspeople sent their daughters for lessons with Emily?
From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or
seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in
china-painting. She fitted up a studio in one of the downstairs rooms, where
the daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris' contemporaries were
sent to her with the same regularity and in the same spirit that they were sent
to church on Sundays with a twenty-five-cent piece for the collection plate.
Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.
A. The townspeople send the girls as a form of charity to help support Emily.
B. The girls' families wanted to show off their wealth.
C. The townspeople were curious to see what the inside of Emily's house looked like.
D. The girls took lessons from Emily so they wouldn't have to go to church services
.