Grace

Grace says what her boundaries are in the first minute of a visit and then trusts the room to have heard her, which is a courtesy in both directions. She is twenty-four and lives in Oud-Zuid, a walk from the Vondelpark, and she tends to arrive a fraction early and wait rather than knock on the dot. Polish and English are both hers to use, and she is unhurried in either. If a limit is pushed at, the visit ends there and she goes, which she would rather write down here than explain on a landing. Guests who read that as severity usually change their minds inside ten minutes.

Grace 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.