The lines from the passage that best show that Penelope is clever are the following: <span> Penelope does not want to marry any of the suitors. She is buying time by spinning and unspinning her burial shroud. </span><span> Reached their hearts that way, and they agreed. </span><span> So every day I wove on the great loom, </span><span>but every night by torchlight I unwove it;</span><span> </span>