But if we'd just let things slide and taken advantage of what happened, it would only have been business after all.

Except for that doubt about getting back to par,' he added, as an afterthought.

'But then I should have felt whether it was safe or not.' 'Then why did you not let things slide, as you call it ?' 'I don't know, I'm sure.

Maybe I was soft-hearted.

We don't always know why we do things in business.