"I suppose we are in some danger ?"said miss mebbin.
She was not actually nervous about the wild beast, but she had a morbid dread of performing an atom more service than she had been paid for.
"Nonsense,"said Mrs packletide;"it's a very old tiger. It could not spring up here even if it wanted to".
" If it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees is a lot of money"
Louisa mebbin adopted a protective elder sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination. aur energetic intervention had saved many a rouble from depleting itself in tips in some Moscow hotel, and francs and centimes clung to her instinctively under circumstances which would have driven them head long from less sympathetic hands. Her assumption has to the market depreciation of tiger remnants were cut short by the appearance on the scene of the animal itself. As soon as it got sight of the tethered goat it lay flat on the earth, seerningly less from or desire to take advantage of all available cover than for the purpose of snatching a short rest before commenting the grand attack.