In the flat above mine lived a short, dumpy, middle aged woman. We met on the stairs occasionally and said hello, politely, well we did until the evening when there was a terrific crash on my bedroom ceiling, followed by a half an hour of silence, then a desperate banging started. I ascended the stairs to find the front door of my neighbours flat unlocked, fortunately. I went to the bedroom and discovered her led on the floor. Heaven knows what she had been doing but the hatch into the roof space was open and one of her legs was clearly broken, I guessed that she had fallen from the loft. I covered her with a blanket and phoned the ambulance. It was serious, not only had she broken a leg but a hip as well. It was a good while before the ambulance men were confident enough to transfer her to a stretcher and carry her down the three flights of steep stairs to the ambulance.
A few days later I tracked her to the hospital. When I attempted to visit my neighbour I was accosted by a fierce matron - this all happened many years ago when hospitals had matrons and only the men from U.N.C.L.E. has mobiles. "Who are you?" she enquired in startlingly abrupt manner.
"The man who found her, I live in the flat blow hers, I only know she's Mrs. Staveley because I read her envelopes in the hall; incidentally I've brought her post with me."
"Oh she replied," sounding somewhat mollified. "Well Mrs. Cassandra Staveley has no close relatives and has had no visitors at all so far, perhaps if you could pop in two or three times a week it would cheer her up; despite our best efforts she's still in a lot of pain. That was how I came to know Cassie. Eventually, she did have another visitor, her boss: I knew about him because he could afford far more showy flowers than I could, and I really liked the grapes her brought her.
She recovered sufficiently to come home, her boss brought her work to her, she did his books, and I did her shopping and other little errands; it was several weeks before her plaster cast was removed and she could really get about again. She had been home for a few days when she asked if I would do her a really special favour?
"If I can," I replied gallantly.
"Well it's a bit embarrassing actually. Well... Well, would you help me in and out of the bath. I just can't manage on my own."
"Yes," I stuttered my mind reeling at the implications of her request.
"Good, because I'm starting to smell, give me ten minutes and I'll call."
I went to her kitchen to make us some tea. "Ready!" She shouted. She was stood by the bath in just her white cotton pants, my jaw dropped, I had expected a swimming costume, or some show of modesty. "Well don't just stand there pull my pants off and help me in." She actually wanted me to strip her naked! "And while I have my bath find me some clean pants there's a dear." In the end I simply lifted her up and placed her in the bath, propping her plastered leg on a small stool to keep it out of the water.
I had never thought about Cassie sexually before, she was well over twenty years my senior, but it is something that does come to mind when you lift a naked woman into a bath. OK she was plump, but not excessively so, she had large, well rounded white breasts and wide, seductive, hips, even if one of them was now a little scarred. Her skin was wrinkled here and there, but only slightly, her eyes were blue and lively, her mouth sensuously broad. Her hair was long, full and lustrous. My eyes strayed back to her breasts, they were magnificent with well defined, dark pink, areolae, almost light brown, oval in shape, encircling prominent, slightly redder, large, round nipples.
By the time I had discovered where Cassie kept her plain white cotton pants I had found that Cassie's taste in underwear could be quite exotic. She had a drawer full of basques and bustiers in bright colours, together with any number of suspender belts. She also had a collection of black, red and magenta bras and pants with holes in strategic places, both with and without lace, a nurses outfit and a maids outfit. I could not help but suspect I was meant to find these, but I laid the plain cotton pants on the bed and kept quiet.