Claire

A long gap is commoner than people think, and she has stopped treating it as something that needs explaining. Twenty-six, blonde, based in De Pijp, she works in French, German and English and is content to spend the opening stretch of an hour on very little. Ninety minutes suits that better than sixty, and she will say as much if you ask which to book. Nobody is asked why the gap happened or how long it ran. She states her own limits before anything begins, in ordinary words, and the rest goes at whatever speed the room can hold.

Claire 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.