Just why Amoret ends up in the House of Busirane at the end of Book 3 remains one of the more popular and contested questions that readers of The Faerie Queene attempt to answer. Spenser's narrator, of course, provides a literal narrative answer to the question at the beginning of Book 4, where readers learn that Busirane kidnaps Amoret—oddly, “[b]y way of sport”—during the antimasque portion of the entertainment at her wedding feast; she is “[c]onueyed quite away to liuing wight vnknowen.” But this answer, at least insofar as it suggests a random act of abduction, satisfies attentive readers of Spenser's allegory about as much as saying that Redcrosse abandons Una merely because Archimago tricks him or that Acrasia's victims end up in the Bower of Bliss only because the witch lures them there against their will. Although this kind of unmediated causation usually seems sufficient to satisfy Spenser's narrator, and although mysterious forces of fortune and providence often seem to influence the narrative, the poem draws readers into its allegorical method by inviting them to seek thematically consistent explanations for narrative events. Since Busirane, his house, and his masque represent forces that threaten and seek to control Amoret, exposing her vulnerabilities and testing her strengths, her encounter with Busirane serves to refine and complicate the meaning of her role in Spenser's poem. Conversely, the trajectory of her story, her role in Spenser's allegory of chaste love, her relationship with Scudamour, and, as this essay adds, her own choices motivate and help to explain her abduction and imprisonment.