It is not every day you sit in a tycoon’s boardroom (nice Gothic lion-clawed chairs, by the way) and receive a challenge:
“The commission is yours if, within seven days, you can forge me two fine pieces of ancient-looking glass …” (the tycoon growled)
The boardroom was littered with other makers’ samples – wallpaper, curtains, rugs, table-tops …
I could see the tycoon’s problem – I’m quick like that …
