Directions In the following questions, read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
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It is strange that, according to his position in He, an extravagant man is admired or despised. A suc cessful businessman does nothing to increase his popularity by being careful with his money. He is ex pected to display his success, to have a smart car, an expensive life, and to be lavish with his hospital ity. If he is not so, he is considered to mean and his reputation in business may even suffer in conse quence. The paradox remains that if he had not been careful with his money in the first place, he would never have achieved his present wealth. Among the two income groups, a different set of values ex ists. The young clerk who makes his wife a present of a new dress when he hadn't paid his house rent, is condemned as extravagant. Care fulness with money to the point of meanness is applauded as a virtue. Nothing in his life is considered more worthy than paying his bills. The ideal wife for such a man separates her housekeeping money into joyless little piles, and she is able to face the milkman with equanimity and never knows the guilt of buying something she can't really afford.
The statement 'she is able to face the milkaman with equa nimity' implies that

Options

A. She is not upset as she has been paying the milkman his dues regularly.
B. She loses her nerve at the sight of the milkman who always demands his dues.
C. She manages to keep cool when she confronts the milkman
D. She remains composed and confident as she knows that she can handle the milkman.

Answer

A