And for the first time since the whole mad adventure had begun, something seemed to "lock" between them.

They see their patronage as a kind of mad adventure.

This has, both the kids and the adults, on a series of mad adventures.

What would drive somebody to say 'yes' to such a mad exit-less adventure?

I cannot leave my duties and take half the squadron to go off on some mad adventure.

It's been too long since I went haring off on a mad adventure.

I had to grow away from this mad adventure.

To do anything else but go forward in this mad adventure would be to invite relaxation-and thought.

But Louise, more prudent, saw an opportunity for putting the mad adventure off until the next day.

And now again he had come back to a certainty that the man had something to do with his mad adventure.