Beatrice

Oud-Zuid is where plenty of secondments end up, in furnished flats with tall windows and neighbours who keep to themselves, and it is also where Beatrice lives. At twenty-six she works chiefly with erotic oil and sensual sessions, unhurried formats that sit well at the close of a working week. Italian and English are both hers, and she moves between them without making anything of it. The brunette who arrives on a third visit in a posting starts that evening fresh: she sets her limits at the door each time, and nothing carries over by assumption.

Beatrice 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.