Change the narrative style by using direct speeches.

"Coffee?" I said. "Yes, just an ice cream and coffee," she answered. I ordered for her and myself. "You know, there's one thing I thoroughly believe in," she said, as she ate the ice cream. "One should always get up from a meal feeling one could eat a little more." "Are you still hungry?" I asked faintly. "Oh, no, I'm not hungry. I was speaking for you." "Oh, I see!"

I asked her if she would take coffee. She replied in the affirmative that she would take just an ice-cream and coffee. I ordered for her and myself. As she ate the ice-cream, she told me that there was one thing she thoroughly believed in. She added that one should always get up from a meal feeling one could eat a little more. I asked her faintly whether she was still hungry. She replied in the negative that she was not hungry at all and added that she had been speaking for me. Then I got the point .