The city is in the calm, steady hands of Mr. Young, who has shown an admirable selflessness in his assumption of his unexpected role as acting mayor. That Mr. Young has no personal ambition to run for mayor and has steered clear of joining or opposing the council members in their call for the mayor’s resignation — to do otherwise, he says, would invariably be viewed as self-serving — gives us confidence. So does his effort to walk the difficult tightrope of maintaining the general direction of Ms. Pugh’s policies amid the uncertainty about her intentions. But in a meeting Monday morning with The Sun’s editorial board, Mr. Young conceded, “Her ability to govern would be very difficult. Let’s face it, how would she get anything done?”