As he did not answer, Alissia ran to the porthole.
It was open and she looked out.
They were moving down the Thames quite swiftly and she guessed that when they reached the middle of the river, the current would carry them quicker still.
She could see a number of people walking on the embankment and she wondered if she screamed out loudly whether they would try to rescue her.
Then as the ship gathered speed she knew that they would only stare and anyway there would be no way for them to reach her.
She felt really terrified as well as angry by what was happening to her.
She thought that Lord Pronett was an evil monster waiting to destroy her.
*
Alissia had only just been dragged down the steps to the ship when, having finished their game, the King and Clive came out through the tenn
