Waiting for the rest of the sentence

When good news arrives, you do not feel relief, you wait a couple of minutes for the bit where it turns out to be less than it looks, and what comes instead of gladness is bracing. You have now counted it four times since June, you have said it out loud for the first time, and Danny dated it without hesitating. Since the Feldman year.

It showed up when Danny's quarter came in better than expected and the Caldwell retainer renewed, and when you put it next to the clean house inspection and Dale telling you your retention numbers, it stopped looking like a money thing.