Investors spent months betting that the Federal Reserve would not raise rates as high as its governors insisted they were prepared to lift them, while economists admonished their foolhardiness from the sidelines.
'Well, you will not have the foolhardiness to decline, now that the question has actually been popped, I should hope, ' said Louis, when he had done reading.
He could not hope to sustain his part indefinitely; sooner or later he was almost bound to betray himself, and then he would have thrown away a vital chance in mere foolhardiness.