Question

what does the sentence means"not that the lust to kill had suddenly desecended on her or that she felt that she would leave India safer and morewholesome than she found it,with one fraction less of wild beastper million of habitants." the sence is from chapter 2 mrs.packeltide's tiger

Answer 1

this means that she didn't have a sudden feeling or urge to kill the tiger and she did not even think that by killing one tiger out of a million tigers she will leave India safer and healthier than before she killed the tiger

the actual reason for her wanting to kill a tiger was that loona bimberton had traveled 11 miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator and only by killing a tiger Mrs packletide could overcome loona bimberton's work