Possible Clues:

• Time at school, we hear, leading to fuel for revolution
• Confusion of slave hiding cocktail of rum
• Confused state
• Lit up, having had rum cocktail nothing to eat: chaos
• Work to tour old city facing mass commotion
• Struggle to keep hold of superior fighting force in disorder
• Word in your ear on fuel chaos
• Speaker's expression crude, possibly, leading to disorder
• Disturbance in posh room with work going on outside
• Confusion from time in school reportedly, one is livid at the start