Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-2.96.106.45-20131022215901/@comment-4802159-20131028042208

They don't necessarily have to be bound romantically, although it wouldn't be implausable for the character archetype to be drawn to much older men.

Alternatively, it could be some kind of indebtedness that she feels towards him. Call it the wookie effect, although obviously not as personally binding, since she still seems to value her own concience over it.