17 A SURPRISE VISITORA week or so after the party, Craig was sitting in the garden in the mid-afternoon, taking a break from the computer screen and Lek was implementing a new anti-canine security system for her flowers. Craig was doing a week-old Sudoku puzzle that he had saved up and the dogs were biting each other and his toes. When Lek’s phone rang, he took no notice because Lek’s phone rang several times an hour everyday.
“Wooo! Wooo!,” she screamed, and then a flurry of Thai that probably most Thai men would not have had the chance to catch, followed by “OK, darling, we will have madame’s room prepared just as she likes it.”
Craig was listening bemused, but he didn’t have long to wait to find out what the cause of the excitement was. Lek either hung up or was hung up on, because af
