“Tomorrow I will fly to a foreign city and settle there. This is my job - from time to time I set sail and settle for several months away from home. This won't suit everyone. Especially if more than anything else you are afraid of losing any little thing dear to your heart, filling the indifferent emptiness around you. I'm not afraid. And I don’t have such little things. <…> I spent a long time, patiently rebuilding, reshaping and shaking up life before I brought it into combat marching order. Now it is mobile, compact and reliable, like my father’s old suitcase, tested by time and numerous officer’s business trips, protected from the blows of fate by two shiny English locks and strong, like gun shell casings, iron heels in the corners...”