I am going there now.

Would you care to come too ?" The captain gratefully acquiesced.

For a week he had been chafing at the doctor's orders that no boy should go beyond the bounds.

His request to be allowed to undertake this very expedition had been twice refused already.
"The doctor has given you an _exeat_ if you wish to go," said Mr Stratton.

"We are to take a guide, and it is quite understood we may be late in getting back.