CHAPTER THREE
The Traveller’s Rest at Tilbury was a hotel where the guests never stayed for very long.
People arriving by sea might stay there temporarily and travellers leaving in ships used it until they knew that they could go aboard.
No one took any notice of a lady who had engaged a room for herself and her daughter on Wednesday night.
She was noted in the Register as ‘Mrs. Johnson’.
As soon as she and her daughter arrived, they went straight upstairs to their bedroom on the first floor and stayed there all night.
The following morning there was a rumble of excitement amongst those working in the hotel.
They knew that a party was arriving from Windsor Castle and they would require coffee in the Private Lounge.
At a quarter after ten the first smart carriage arrived and drove u
