"Oh, and - I currently have running, and am using only to quantify Intelligence not to read minds, a Detect Thoughts spell.  That does mean I can tell anyone their Intelligence, privately, if they don't already know it.  I would also be interested in hearing anybody's cheerful price if they - just happened to be fairly okay with my reading their mind, if I promised not to tell anybody else what I saw there - because Golarion is still very strange to me, and it might help me, if I could see anyone else's thoughts at all."

"Is that legal?" someone breaks the skeptical silence to ask. "Uh, you having it running, I mean, I think it'd be legal if I agreed. Which I don't!"

"I've got no idea, what with not living here, but I'd expect sensible Governance to say it's not Terrible if you declare under truthspell that you have not and will not read any minds without agreement.  As I so truthfully declare."

"It's off scroll and doesn't have as much time left as the truthspell, so if anybody wants to take me up on that offer they need to do it quite soon."

Letting a man read your mind is probably not as bad as letting him touch you but it's in the genre. They continue staring suspiciously. 

Fine and understandable!  Super valid!  Does anybody want their Intelligence told to them, though?

...what for?

"Seems a little bit like courting trouble, if you ask me," the old woman says firmly, and everyone else nods like that has settled the matter.

...huh.

He'll pass out a gold piece to the 6 INT, an 8 INT, a 10 INT, all 12s or above, and that old woman, should they choose to accept them.

...yes, they will accept the gold, with their amount of delight varying from 'a little delighted' to 'a lot delighted'. 

The woman with six intelligence immediately hands it to her sister and says "I got a GOLD COIN, Netta, it's GOLD, just look at it!" Netta swats her with one hand and looks anxiously back at Keltham as if expecting him to snatch the coin back.

Keltham will avoid saying anything like 'It sure is gold!' out loud; she is not in fact a child, except in a moral/ethical sense, and he does not know how to treat with her.

His first question is to the old woman, and by Message: why would it court trouble to know your own Intelligence?

Well, she says back, it's just a number, and you might think too much of that number, and go around thinking it's who you are.

"Huh," Keltham says (still by Message).  "In dath ilan, my homeland, we just tell people not to think that, and have a custom against inquiring of other people's Intelligence-equivalent; but it seems like fairly important information to know about yourself, even if it doesn't define you.  If I see a woman with 14 Intelligence, what I was told is Intelligence enough for wizard training on the usual scales, should I not be telling her even that, lest that number come to define herself? - or numerical range, if I just tell her it's at least 14."

Well, I don't know, is she so young that she could try to marry a wizard and learn off him? Or is she already settled and has children?

Suppose he doesn't know.

Well, he could tell her mother, and then her mother can think about whether a wizard is attainable, and tell her only once they've attained it, if it can be done.

This old woman presents as being very wise, and seemingly knows all about the dangers of defining herself by her Intelligence score.  Perhaps it is safe to tell just her, then, her own Intelligence score, if not all the other women present?  They don't need to know that she was told.

Well, she doesn't expect it'd hurt her, but it wouldn't help her either, so she can't see why learn it.

That is respectable, though he doesn't understand it.

Keltham does have questions that he'd ask of a woman who could be a wizard.  In her estimation, how much gold ought to be conservatively offered to a woman, to generously compensate her for the harm of telling her that she's smart enough to be a wizard?

Well, what's she going to do with the gold, hire a servant she can unhappily tell about how she could've been a wizard? It's not the hungry season, and the money won't last that long.

Would fifty gold do it.

Which girl is it.

Her Intelligence score is her own private information which she has not particularly authorized Keltham to tell to anybody else.

Well, she can't tell him how much to pay if she doesn't know who it is. If it's Mirna, he should tell her he put fifty gold in trust for her for lessons at the Temple of the All-Seeing Eye, and gave one to Nasim to watch the babies while she's at them; if it's Yamina, he should tell her mother and see if a match can be managed. 

She points them out. It's almost definitely one of the two of them; they're the bright ones.

(And which one is it, actually?)

Mirna, who has a baby strapped to her; Yamina's a 12.