It is also possible that, being a lady of conventional ideas, she acted instinctively and could not help herself.

That a young woman of extensive possessions should encourage a camp-packer was, from her point of view, unthinkable.
For this reason, perhaps, it was not astonishing that there was for some little time a quiet battle between the two.

When Ida desired to go fishing, Mrs.Kinnaird suggested something else, or contrived that the packer should be busy.

Failing this, she patiently bore discomforts from which she usually shrank, and put her companions to a good deal of trouble by favoring them with her company.

The major naturally did not notice what was going on, and she did not enlighten him; nor did Weston, for that matter; while Arabella stood aside and looked on with quiet amusement.