Possible Clues:

• Recruit may be bitter, perhaps, about short name
• “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a ____ again” (Steve Jobs, on being fired by Apple)
• Request made by intimate learner
• One starting booze, drinking booze before noon
• Bishop, say — private individual needing more experience
• First-timer
• Novice, starter
• Formally request private to be new recruit?
• New recruit having drink outside good tavern
• Learner