A)The black audience members in the courthouse stand as he passes.
B)Food is left at his house.
After the trial, the children go home to eat and get ready to come back later in order to find out about the verdict. After eleven at night, the jury enters, and they deliver a guilty verdict. As Atticus goes out of the courtroom, the black people in the balcony stand up out of respect and gratitude. The day after, the family receives an enormous quantity of food from Maycomb's black population.
The ideas that is most closely
related to the theme in these lines are ‘It is the law of life: one takes, then
one hands over to another in one's turn. But that does not mean we obey the law
readily and willingly.’
Honestly, I would guess C. The author compares grief to a wet mop to show that when the time for grieving ends, each person must let go of it on his or her own.