They strolled down the path, amidst the flowers.
"You said, yesterday," he began, "that I would say one thing and be another.

Now I am going to tell you what I am.

And afterwards I'll tell you why I tell it.

In the first place, you know, I'm a civil engineer, and that includes, in my case, a good deal of knowledge about geology and things of that sort.

I have sometimes been commissioned to make geological surveys for Eastern capitalists.