Blair

A Saturday booking has nothing waiting behind it and no arrival day in front of it, which is the argument Blair makes for the second night rather than the first. Body to body is what she reaches for when the plan around a session is tight, since it leaves a room as it was found and asks nothing of the bathroom. Romanian and English are both available to her and she lets a guest settle on one without discussion. At twenty-seven she reads a doorway quickly, and a visitor travelling by himself is rarely asked why. De Pijp keeps its restaurants lit late, so a nine o'clock start is early by the standards of her own street.

Blair decides which bookings she takes and may decline any of them; she sets the limits for what a session includes, says what they are, and may end a visit at any point, as the terms set out.