Question

"The incidental expenses are heavy", she confides to inquiring friends. (1) who is the speaker? what is she referring to here? (2) what lesson does she learn? (3) what does the word 'confides' means? chapter - Mrs packetide tiger

Answer 1

(a) Mrs. Packletide is the speaker. She is referring to the secondary expenses like buying Miss Mebbin a holiday cottage which costed a her a lot of money.
(b) She learnt that she wud now not indulge in any such activities mainly which involves money.
(c) Confides mainly refers to 'disclose'.



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Answer 2

The term 'incidental expenses' usually means the extra or the secondary expenses added to the main one. Thus, here, its reference explains that the cost of killing a tiger turned out to be much lesser than the cost of hiding the truth by buying Mebbin a weekend cottage near Darking. This presents the irony of the story. Mrs. Packletide had to bow to the demands of Miss Mebbin else the latter was blackmailing her to have revealed the truth about her not killing the tiger.