'Do you or do you not know how I can go about finding them?' Nettle was phrasing her questions carefully.

'I do,' said the Bellbot after some thought.

'Then tell me how,' said Nettle, 'Guest list,' announced the robot. 'And where is that?'

'Deskbot - Embarkation Lobby - Embarkation Floor,' replied the bot.

'Can't I just ring from my room?'

'Not from the Super Galactic Traveller Class Suites, no.'

'Then show me the way to the Embarkation Lobby,' said Nettle.

'Ah!' replied the Bellbot, 'I'm afraid I can't leave this deck, but if you go along to the lifts, the Liftbot will take care of all your vertical transportation requirements, and then a Doorbot will escort you round the Embarkation Lobby.'

Nettle sighed. She could already tell that travelling Super Galactic Class was not going to be glamorous.

Lucy came to her senses to hear a loud knocking sound. She sat up and looked around an unfamiliar room. It was tiny, cramped and had a hideous lampstand in one corner. The television wasn't working properly and the colour scheme was a ghastly pink. There was a constant grinding sound coming from underneath the floor and besides that there was this wretched knocking on what she now began to recognize as the door.

'Lucy!' Lucy now realized there was a voice accompanying the knocking. 'Open the door!' It was Dan,

'How?'

'You've got a little remote control thingie - use that,' shouted Dan.

After a bit of fumbling she managed to get the door open, and there was Dan, standing in a dingy corridor running his fingers through his hair like he always did.

'Thank God you're 0K!' He smiled that mile-wide smile of his, and Lucy flung herself at him as if she were drowning.

'What happened?' she cried.

'We're going to find out.' Thank goodness he sounded more confident than he felt.

'We're in that spaceship, aren't we?' Lucy wished she didn't sound so unconfident - because now she had Dan there, she really felt everything was going to be all right.