Question

The incidental expenses are so heavy,explain the statement in the context with the chapter,Mrs. Packletide

Answer 1

The incidental expenses are so heavy. She talks aboyt the money she had to give to Loisa Mebin for buying the weekend cottage and to keep the secret that mrs packletide has killed the goat instead of the tiger

Answer 2

Mrs. Packletide said that "the incidental expenses are so heavy." She said this in order to express her feeling that the expenses she had to bear in order to keep the secrecy of the killing of the tiger were too heavy.  

Louisa Mebin is one of the shrewd and cunning characters. She grabs all the opportunity of gaining wealth. She is very opportunist. SHe starts to blackmail Mrs.  Packletide for some wealth in return. She blackmailed her of revealing her secret of killing a tiger. She was very money minded. She was the so-called companion and friend of Mrs. Packletide.