Four weeks to the day after being used while only semi-conscious, I answered a knock at my door to find the 73 year-old grandmother who had taken advantage of my drunken state stood on the step looking oddly both innocent and apologetic.
"Can I come in?" she said quietly, "I'd like to try to explain why I did what I did in the hope that you'll understand and maybe make up for a couple of things that I've been sorry for ever since that night."
I don't know if was my polite upbringing, or some curious desire to find out why an old woman had forced herself on a very drunk man fifty years younger then she was, so I just shrugged "ok", gestured towards the kitchen, and followed her down the hallway.
"Do mind if I make something to drink? I've brought my own and I'm a little nervous about talking to you," she said pulling a box of herbal teabags from a large brown leather handbag she placed on the kitchen table.
She refused my offer to do it, put the kettle on, smiled almost benignly while it boiled, filled two mugs which were on the worktop, and dropped a small green bag in each. "Do you like herbal?" she smiled handing me one of the cups.
I just shrugged again, and sat on a chair facing her as she did the same.
"What do you think? " she said nodding at my cup as I sipped from it. "It's very nice" I replied truthfully, "But you really didn't need to come round and apologise or anything. I was drunk, what happened, happened, and I really don't remember very much."
She smiled weakly, "But I've had regrets about that night, so I just had to come round and see if you'd let me in."