Jason feels a kind of irrational burst of anger: the casino! But you can’t custom-order people’s kindnesses. People do what they can, they give what they have. He has no right to be angry with someone who is just trying to help. He’s not thinking the way he usually does: he has become someone unconsciously—or not so unconsciously—searching for something to be mad at, from cold coffee to the infuriating vagueness expressed every day by the medical community. Hard to say. Can’t be sure. Just have to wait and see.
