All too often.
He wished now that he hadn’t told another man’s wife so much about himself and his new way of life in Thailand. The woman had managed to persuade even some of his own family that he was on a mission of self-destruction whether she did it on purpose by argument or solely through the respect for her opinions that his family had for her. He had inadvertently given her all the ammunition to condemn him with. He had never told anyone about that problem, not even Lek despite what she thought of him and his ability to keep secrets.
He had often thought that he had led a charmed life, but now at the age of sixty, he was beginning to learn what some people, like Lek, had learned long ago, to wit that talking too much, telling everyone everything that they wanted to know, is not alw
