Which sentence best supports the inference that the narrator's mother had been hoping to spend a day with her daughter before she started high school?

One more dive into the mess of insects and rough conditions before mother would "set me free" she joked.

Answer: A. So, I dug deep, and began marching up the steepening hill. B. It was my mother's profession and somehow had become my hobby as a child. C. As a kid, I loved the adventure of hiking into the unknown across the country, but I had grown weary of it all D. One more dive into the mess of insects and rough conditions before mother would "set me free" she joked.