"Well, here is your record before me and it is good, very good indeed.

But I see that you are on sick leave.

Are you too ill for service ?" "No," answered Godfrey, "the voyage has set me up.

I feel as well as ever I did." "That's fortunate," answered the official, "but there is a doctor on the premises, and to make sure he shall have a look at you.

Go down and see him, if you will, and then come back here with his report," and he rang a bell and gave some orders.
Within half an hour Godfrey was back in the room with a clean bill of health.