'Now, how boyish it was, wasn't it?
I remember doing just the same thing once when I came home from school and had an exciting story to tell, with preservation of anonymities.

Of course I blurted out a name in the first minute or two, to my father's great amusement.

He told me that I hadn't the diplomatic character.

I have been trying to acquire it ever since.
'But why ?' 'It's one of the essentials of success in any kind of public life.

And I mean to succeed, you know.