" I'll try not to, but I'm always possessed to burst out with some particularly blunt speech or revolutionary sentiment before her. It's my doom, and I can't help it."
In each of the past three years the economic recovery started with a burst of momentum, only to swoon over the spring and summer. Sadly, there are now signs of a repeat.
Feeling that she must get through the matter somehow, Jo produced her manuscript and, blushing redder and redder with each sentence, blundered out fragments of the little speech carefully prepared for the occasion.