She got out a ‘Connect Four’ and set it up if front of them.
“You can play?” she asked.
“OK,” he replied although he was not really into such games he would have done almost anything to be at the centre of Lek’s attention. In fact, if the truth be known, it had worried Craig when Lek ran off on the verge of tears and he had been racking his brains al afternoon to find out what it was he had done to upset her –
something he would not have done on purpose for al the tea in China.
He was genuinely relieved that she seemed to have forgiven him for whatever it was that he had done. He imagined that he had committed a cultural faux-pas, of which he was unaware. They played for an hour or so and laughed a lot whenever one of them won a
