Which statement from the passage most effectively explains the meaning of the term "father-in-law’s house" from the fruit seller’s viewpoint? “‘Are you going to the father-in-law’s house?’ Rahmun laughed and said: ‘Just where I am going, little one!’”

"'Ah!' he said, 'I would have thrashed that old father-in-law, but my hands are bound!'"

“Now most small Bengali maidens have heard long ago about the father-in-law's house; but we, being a little new-fangled, had kept these things from our child, . . .”

“Then the Cabuliwallah, not to be behindhand, would take his turn: ‘Well, little one, and when are you going to the father-in-law’s house?’”