She looked at him calmly, as if to tell him something: that she understood his game, perhaps, and that she would even let him win it, as long as he played nicely. What kind of person do you think I am? she said.
The game is self-referential, a sly bit of foreplay in a novel about the difficulties of knowing what kind of person any individual is-of understanding the relationship between a type, or a class of person, and the character who embodies it.
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