“Yes, sir.”
“Did you ever think you would like to go to sea?”
“I don’t think I should like to be a sailor, but I should like to go to sea for a single voyage.”
“It would do you good. You’d learn more in a year at sea than in double the time on land.”
“So I think, sir. When do you start on your next voyage?”
“Next week.”
“In what direction shall you go?”
“I shall go to India—probably stopping at Bombay.”
“Will your course lie through the Indian Ocean?” asked Guy, eagerly.
“Yes.”