Select the correct text in the passage. Which line in this excerpt from "Wagner Matinee" by Willa Cather is an example of direct characterization? I owed to this woman most of the good that ever came my way in my boyhood, and had a reverential affection for her. During the years when I visited, my aunt, after cooking the three meals—the first of which was ready at six in the morning—and putting six children to bed, would often stand until midnight at her ironing board, with me at the table beside her, hearing me recite Latin conjugations, gently shaking me when my head sank down over the page. It was to her that I read my first Shakespeare. She taught me my scales and exercises, too—on the little parlor organ. She would sit beside me by the hour, darning while I struggled with the "Joyous Farmer," but she seldom talked to me about music, and I understood why. She was a pious woman; she had the consolations of religion and, to her at least, her martyrdom was not wholly sordid. Once when I had been doggedly beating out some easy passages from an old score I had found, she came up to me and, putting her hands over my eyes, gently drew my head back upon her shoulder, saying tremulously, "Don't love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you.Oh, dear boy, pray that whatever your sacrifice may be, it be not that."