“You make friends easily, Smith. I like to see it—I like to see it.”

“And we can have the room, sir?”

“Certainly—certainly! Tell the matron as you go down.”

“And now,” said Psmith, as they returned to the study, “we may say that we are in a fairly winning position. A vote of thanks to Comrade Jellicoe for his valuable assistance.”

“You are a chap!” said Jellicoe.

The handle began to revolve again.

“That door,” said Psmith, “is getting a perfect incubus! It cuts into one’s leisure cruelly.”

This time it was a small boy. “They told me to come up and tell you to come down,” he said.

Psmith looked at him searchingly through his eyeglass.

“Who?”