Aeng took his hand from her knee at the thought and started the car. He did his usual trick and took off at a high speed making as much noise with the tyres as he could. They took a vacant bench and table in the corner of the beer garden and passed an hour chatting over a few bottles of fashionable Heineken. It was the most expensive of the normal beers and twice the price of the local Beer Chang or Elephant Beer. Lily was finding it hard to play the role of loving girlfriend with Aeng. She did not love him and if he hadn’t loved himself so much he might have noticed, but he was too arrogant for that thought to cross his mind. He had never met anyone that he could not impress with his money and he knew that they would all swap places with him if they could, but what he could not see was