Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all … (sense and sensibility, chapter 1, p. 2)
this excerpt from sense and sensibility characterizes elinor as
a. argumentative
b. unfriendly
c. judgmental
d. level-headed