If she were playing a game it was well done and successful.

Mose fell often into silence and deep thought.
She respected his introspection, and busying herself with the service and with low-voiced orders to the waitress, left him free for a time.
Suddenly she turned.

"You mustn't judge me by what people say outside.
Judge me by what I am to you.

I don't claim to be a Sunday-school teacher, but I average up pretty well, after all.

I appear to a disadvantage.