Cora

The market stalls in De Pijp come down at five, and by the hours she works the street outside has gone back to being residential.

Ask for Cora How an hour is held

Cora, as she is

In her own hours

Twenty-four, dark-haired, and inclined to treat an hour as one long movement rather than a sequence with parts to it. Croatian and English are hers, although a guest who wants the room silent only has to write that line once. She draws the curtain herself, leaves a single lamp burning and puts her coat over the back of a chair. Her limits are stated early, in ordinary words, and she does not return to the subject afterwards.

Cora 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.