Lory

Two hours suit her better than one, because the second hour is where her pace stops reading as a decision and starts reading as her.

Ask for Lory How an hour is held

Lory, as she is

In her own hours

Twenty-six and dark-haired, living in De Pijp among the long terraces behind the market. Romanian and English are on her page, and both get used rather less than a first-time guest tends to expect. She has no habit of glancing at a clock and none of announcing what is coming next. Anybody who has spent a day being talked at can put one line in writing asking for silence, and she keeps to it.

Lory 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.