Spurns enviously at straws... ...speaks things in doubt that carry but half sense.

You at least it listens Who do you think is it? why always are filling me they are enviously, all right

Four years is the normal tour for a British ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament - although I note in passing, and somewhat enviously, that my two immediate predecessors were each fortunate enough to remain in Geneva for rather longer - and I must say that those four years have slipped away very rapidly indeed.