The change in her life did not come about gradually but was made all at once. "She must begin as she is to go on," Miss Minchin said to Miss Amelia. "She must be taught at once what she is to expect."

Mariette had left the house the next morning. The glimpse Sara caught of her sitting room, as she passed its open door, showed her that everything had been changed. Her ornaments and luxuries had been removed, and a bed had been placed in a corner to transform it into a new pupil's bedroom.

When she went down to breakfast she saw that her seat at Miss Minchin's side was occupied by Lavinia, and Miss Minchin spoke to her coldly.

"You will begin your new duties, Sara," she said, "by taking your seat with the younger children at a smaller table. You must keep them quiet, and see that they behave well and do not waste their food. You ought to have been down earlier. Lottie has already upset her tea.

Read the excerpt from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The story takes place in a boarding school for girls in England during the nineteenth century. Which statement about nineteenth-century England is reflected in the excerpt?
A.
Young women faced strict expectations.
B.
Young people often had to work in factories.
C.
Young women often rebelled against schoolwork.
D.
Young people traveled more than they had before.