The transition here is the child's nature of "clinging to her skirts" and growing to "womanhood" so, option (C): "to her skirts is the correct answer.
She used to have a young child clinging to her skirts, but since that child had grown to full adulthood, she came to the porch with her mother every day and waved.
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