He was feeling better disposed toward Adair and Sedleigh then he had felt, but he was not sure that he was quite prepared to go as far as a complete climb-down.

If Psmith, therefore, did not consider it too much of a climb-down to renounce his resolution not to play for Sedleigh, there was nothing to stop Mike doing so, asat the bottom of his hearthe wanted to do.

The reason?a kindly means of saving faces for those whom he and I were going to "persuade"of making the "climb-down" easier for them!