“Rosa, you forgot your bag.” Allen sauntered the last few metres to her side and handed it to her, shame prevented rosa from looking him in the eye, she had behaved despicably and here he was still being nice and gracious.

“Look, I know this is weird for you. And I’m sorry about what I said about Axel. But do you think I could come up and get cleaned up?”

She glanced down at his ruined trousers and nodded, it was the least she could do, she fumbled through my bag and fished out her keys, Rosa remained silent as she let him in and they climbed the stairs. It...