We were both nude, and both oblivious to it. Ok, I said, we’ll share. We both sat on the sofa and started eating. Who would have believed it, 41 yea...r old successful career women, with a grown up son, sitting nude with a young boy less than half his age. He was sitting opposite me and we were chatting while we ate. I was feeling light and refreshed and after so many years, feeling real hungry. While we ate, he suddenly told me, will you dance. Are you crazy I said? But he got his phone and. By early evening I was beginning to feel peckish and as there was no food in the house I decided I would go into town to eat.I caught a bus into the town centre. The bus was jammed full, standing room only. Some guy, well I think it was a guy, touched my rear and for a moment the hand tried to slip between my legs. My skin crawled at the thought of being groped by some faceless man and I tried to move through the crowded bus away from the questing hand but in such a confined space I had nowhere. Ha-ha heard Smita at door and in hurry wore my short and came out she said she is going out and will return till evening and asked to take care of house I said okay and again she gave a naughty smile.I then was home for some time and was with buddies and returned back in the night around 8.30 and Smita’s home was in darkness. I Thought she might have slept and so without making noise I moved towards home and changed and sat up. Smita knocked the door with baby in arms and asked if she can. Because I had nottouched a dram of wine that night, and from my experience as a judge ofthe centumviri, I saw them as they were: dirty, ill-equipped, andsullen defenders of the law, granted only enough authority by the Senateto keep the peace -- and only just. It was forbidden to raise an army,or to invite the soldiery into Rome; the patricians of the Curia feltthe cohort was as much a threat to themselves as they were to us, anddenied them proper equipment or strength of numbers. Most were.