When her veil has been removed, all of them didn't believe what they were seeing. Their saviour was Amelia. Wellard was right, she didn't die when the Renown was taken, and she just faked her own death. She decided to tell them what really happened.
-I'm sorry to have hid my true identity, I had my reasons. You have discovered who I am, but there are many things that you don't know. First, I have bought the Renown, it has its old crew, and it just missed us to leave. After that, you should be asking what I am, who I am really. What I will say have to stay a secret that you will protect will your lives. I am a spy, or as I preferred to call that, an intelligence agent, I had the mission to eliminate Captain Sawyer and Doctor Clive, they had done too much problems to the admiralty. As for when the Renown was attacked, I knew that it was going to happen, so I made the privateers believe that I was some Turkish princess who has been kidnapped. For when you all saw someone drowning in the water, it was only a statue wearing my clothes. I had to disappear. Now, you have to remind that I am your captor until we are onboard of the Renown again, when we will return to the ship everything will return like before.
After telling them the truth, Amelia wasn't able to sleep again, just like Wellard who was now too surprised by her to sleep. So, he asked to talk with her while the others were sleeping and dreaming.
-Miss Pellew, I know that I have been too timid to talk to you before, but …
-Please call me Amelia.
-Amelia, I wanted to give you back your pearl necklace, I found it some time after you disappeared.
-You kept it with you all that time?
-Yes, it helped me to remind of you …
-To remind of me?
-Yes, the first time I saw you in your small boat coming to the Renown, I felt something for you…
-What do you mean?
-I think that I fell in love with you that day. I was with Hornblower and Kennedy when they found you barely alive in your cabin, this is when I understood how much I you meant to me …
After the night, the "Turkish princess" and her "prisoners" walked to the ship, like she said everything was like before, the ship has been repaired for the damages done from the encounter with the privateer. The only thing different now, was that Amelia, as the owner of the ship chose to take the captain's cabin as her own, after all she done to save the other men lives, she had the right to take it. When everyone returned to their place on the ship, they left for the Cairo to find Amelia's father.
When they saw her wearing one of her own dresses that she bought when they were in Turkey, they could only remind her of when she danced her danced that freed them. She was a really beautiful woman. Kennedy and Hornblower could only think of the chance that Wellard had to court her.
One day, when she could meet with the lieutenants and Wellard, she explained them what was probably going to happen when they would arrive in Egypt.
-Because the captain and the doctor have mysteriously disappeared, there is a small possibility that you will have to face a court martial. If it is the case, the only thing you will have to say is that you were captured by the Turkish sultan, and the Egyptian bought you as slaves. After, you escaped from her and returned her for me. They don't have to know how the captain acted.
-What if they ask more about the Egyptian? Asked Wellard.
-Don't worry about that, they know who I am.
-But you said that you were a spy, how would they know you? Asked Hornblower.
-Some could say that I sometimes offer my services to help the admiralty, like to make disappear too disturbing people, getting information at any costs, those kinds of things, and you're not the first people I have saved from prisons. But everyone, you have to keep those information secret, one day I could be useful again.
They finally arrived to the Cairo where Amelia met her father. She told to him alone:
-My mission is ended, the two don't exist anymore.
-It is a very good thing.
-What would you like my dear daughter in exchange of this service?
-If you don't mind, father, I would really be happy if you would accept what a young man on the Renown have asked me …
-What did he ask, who is it?
-Midshipman Wellard of the Renown has asked me to marry him …
-I will see …
When Amelia's father had met the young man, he accepted what Amelia asked. As a spy, it would be a very good idea for her to marry a man that could be useful for her missions …