Also, it was less easy for her, than for a younger person, to fall in with _modes_ of work, so entirely unlike aught to which she had been accustomed. Her very warm-heartedness and impetuosity were now and then somewhat of a hindrance,--as when, on her first arrival, going into a Zenana, she pressed forward and eagerly shook hands with a bibi,--an Indian lady,--forgetting the difference of Indian customs and English ones. Had it been a Christian bibi, this would not have mattered. As it was, the mistake was so serious, that it might have resulted, and very nearly did result, in the closing of that particular Zenana to all further efforts.