At this point the story became very ractive. Nell stayed up for a while 
in the ractive, trying different things. Sometimes the man gave her a drink, 
and she fell asleep. But if she refused to take the drink, he would grab her 
and tie her up. Either way, the man always turned out to be a pirate, or else 
he would sell Princess Nell to some other pirates who would keep her and not 
let her go. Nell tried every trick she could think of, but it seemed as though 
the ractive were made in such a way that, once she'd made the decision to go 
away with the stranger, nothing she could do would prevent her from becoming a 
slave to the pirates.