Ease is something a body can be talked into in small amounts, even in the middle of an awful stretch. Notice where your shoulders are sitting. A great many people hold them an inch higher than necessary for whole afternoons and never once register it.
Letting them down fixes nothing. It does subtract one small ongoing cost that was being paid all day for no return at all.
That size of ease is available in this room, right now, without anyone's permission and without waiting for good news first.