The princess was a barbaric women as it says so several times in the text. “Had it not been for the moiety of barbarism in her nature it is probable that lady would not have been there, but…”(page 3) I think that because the princess is so barbaric like her father that she would rather see her lover be eaten by a tiger than be swooped up by someone else. I think that she thinks that she could handle the pain of him being gone because of how mentally strong she is rather than have to see him with someone else. The door she told him to open has to be the one with tiger behind it.
