And when the surface story and the story in the numbers do not match, the numbers are almost always telling the truth, and the surface story is almost always about to get someone killed on an operating table for the wrong reason.
I had perhaps ten seconds to decide whether to trust my own reading over a room full of people telling me to sign.
It was not a hard decision.
Reading those numbers correctly is the thing I am for.
“Hywel,” I said.
“Don’t sign yet.”