"Well then I guess I'll just be left to roam the mean streets of Kirkwall alone, unable to run a simple shell game. What if that's all I'd need to know to save myself from the stocks."

Never mind that they don't employ the stocks in Kirkwall, as far as she knows. That's not the point. She plants her hands on her knees as if to lever herself up, surely about to walk forlornly away.