Craig couldn’t understand the ex-pats, but he was more concerned why Lek had not asked him to go with her to book the taxi. Lek was wondering that exact same thing: why hadn’t Craig offered to go with her? Neither of them wanted to expose their feelings too much, but the problem was that there was not much time left for subtlety. Lek decided that her next move would be to leave him alone for most of the day on some pretext or other hoping that absence may make the heart grow fonder, but then to shower him with reminder gifts before he went home, so she went off looking for inspiration in the shopping mal s.
When Lek didn’t come back quickly, Craig phoned Will and then went to his hotel for a swim and a chat. “I don’t know what t
