Possible Clues:

• Evaluation
• Appraisal
• Inspectors' appraisal fools people, in a way
• Old male German paramilitaries overwhelmed by strength test
• Mugs people in the street - a charge results
• A reckoning of how silly the girl gets with people before tea
• Perhaps she's silly in her reckoning to get the men to tea at last
• Reckoning what a fool she is with the fellows before a little tea
• This shows she's silly, perhaps, with people before tea
• Opinion something useful to get about sailors on ship