Q. Identify the indirect speech.
The employer said to the workman, “I cannot pay you higher wages.”

• (A) The employer told the workman that is could not be paid higher wages.
• (B) The employer told the workman that he could not pay him higher wages.
• (C) The employer forbade the workman to pay higher wages.
• (D) The employer warned the workman that he cannot pay him higher wages.