The man carrying her opened the door and then he gave a shrill whistle.
A few seconds later four more men came hurrying out and the two men who had brought her there then began to talk very rapidly in a guttural Italian dialect.
Silva could understand only a very little of what they said, but she did gather that they were delighted they had captured someone from ‘the big ship’.
They reckoned the owner would pay much money for her. It was just what she had expected and in a way it was a relief to know that it was not worse.
They might well have been intending to kill her or perhaps t*****e her in some way.
She kept very quiet, but was aware that all six men were looking at her with satisfaction and she thought that they were saying, although she was not at all certain, that she was you
