Which excerpt from "The Chrysanthemums" best reveals that Elisa is proud of her
garden?

A. It was a hard-swept looking little house, with hard-polished windows, and
a clean mud-mat on the front steps.

B. Back at the chrysanthemum bed she pulled out the little crisp shoots,
trimmed off the leaves of each one with her scissors and laid it on a
small orderly pile.

C. She was cutting down the old year's chrysanthemum stalks with a pair of
short and powerful scissors.

D. The chrysanthemum stems seemed too small and easy for her energy.