11 THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFEThe next morning, chang mai, the carpenter, arrived early and hung the front and back doors as he had promised, but neither of them was happy about the front door. It was a very nice door in itself, but they had become accustomed to the extra light that it blocked out when shut and it had to stay shut in order to do its job, so Lek phoned the glaziers to measure up and price for sliding patio doors. Eventually, they settled on French windows and the glazing firm promised to take the wooden door out, double the size of the opening, fit the new unit and make it all good in two days.
They gave the wooden door to Mum as a gift.
The glaziers fitted the frames one day and installed the French doors, but they had never promised that they would be able to glaze them a
