She now had half of the data sets she needed to show that her hypothesis was right. Ideally, she’d wait until she had all the data before she took it to Roger, but his talk was just over a week away and he would need to change his slides. She retrieved the graphs from the printer and leafed through them. There should be enough to convince Roger. ‘Hibs?’ She turned to him. ‘Can you have a quick look at these, please?’ She thrust the papers towards him. He took them and looked through, frowning. After a minute or two, his frown cleared up. ‘Hey, these look pretty good. You need another data set, to be sure, but otherwise, pretty good.’ He gave the papers back to her and smiled. It was the first smile she’d seen in a while. ‘Well done, Beth. Good call.’ Beth felt a small glow in her chest from his praise. When it came to science, Hibs didn’t throw his compliments around. If he felt it was a good call, it was a good call. ‘I was going to show Roger,’ she said.
