Compassionate and merciful.
shrewd and cunning is ruled out
responsibility is not needed in this act of kindness
the text does not show the widow doing anything kind
<span>So every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I unwove it; and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians.
Her plan had all along been to delay time of having to marry a suitor. Thus, her actions display how clever she was</span>