You are mistaken.

This is not Cairo." "What of that, sir?
Is it not the privilege of a passenger to stop at any intermediate point ?" "Not in this case, Madam." "What do you mean ?" she blazed out at him in anger on first impulse.

But even as she did so there came over her heart once more the sick feeling of helplessness.

Though innocent, she was indeed a prisoner! As much as though this were the Middle Ages, as though these were implacable armed enemies who stood about her, and not commonplace, every-day individuals in a commonplace land, she was a prisoner.
"You shall suffer for this!" she exclaimed.

"There must be a law somewhere in this country." "That is true, Madam," said the captain, "and that is the trouble.
I'm told that my orders come from the _highest_ laws.