For days I trudged from one property-dealer to another, from one "to-let" notice to another, with the estimate advance money tucked safely in the inner lining of my handbag, but in vain. At one place they needed a couple, at another a young man, and at another they wished to know my employment status. And I realized that I was a freak called the single woman and the job statuse being nothing more than a freelance writer with hardly any assigents in hand, only dream of making it some day. So the dream-house remained far away, gradually turning into a fantasy.
The author "trudged from one propertydealer to another" means that the author

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A. a novelist
B. an independent writer
C. a publisher of journals
D. an unemployed person