You are following the popular avenue to polities, I suppose.

Leave the 'Varsity very raw, knock about in an unintelligent way for three or four years on some frontier, then come home, go into the House, and pose as a specialist in foreign affairs.

I should have thought you had too much humour for that." "Only, you see, I have been there before.

I am merely going back upon my tracks to make sure.

I go purely as an adventurer, hoping to pick up some valuable knowledge, but prepared to fail." Gribton helped himself to champagne.