A Voss and Pike Casefile: The First Case

This Sociological Life

Section 29: The Test

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The Test

You sat. Jonah talked, eventually, not about the night Hume died but about the summer: being handed spreadsheets with columns unlabelled, told to "just enter what's there," slowly working out on his own what the columns probably meant, and saying nothing, because it was his first proper job and he badly wanted to keep it.

"I liked him," Jonah said, finally. "Hume. He was the only one who ever asked what I thought the data actually showed, instead of just whether I'd finished entering it."