‘No, I mean now.’
‘Go now!’ Laura said. ‘I never heard anything so daft.’
‘Why? I can’t fish until my shoulder is better, so I might as well go exploring.’
‘Your shoulder will be better in two days with my treatment.’
‘How does one get to Cladda?’
‘From Oban, I should think,’ Tommy said.
‘Alan Grant, don’t be absurd. If you can’t fish for a day or two there are a hundred other things you can do instead of being bucketed about on a Minch crossing in March.’
‘Spring comes early to the Islands, they say.’
‘It doesn’t to the Minch, believe me.’
‘You could fly, of course,’ Tommy said, considering the subject as he considered everything that was put in front of him, with a kind sobriety. ‘You could fly one day and come back the next, if you liked. It’s quite a good service.’