Olivia

A long, even hour with nothing in it that has to be answered, which is roughly what guests mean when they write asking for calm.

Ask for Olivia How an hour is held

Olivia, as she is

In her own hours

Twenty-six, dark-haired, living out in Oud-Zuid where the streets are wide and very little happens after ten. English is her only language and she is sparing with it. She takes the opening quarter of an hour at a pace that would look slow from outside the room, then holds it there instead of speeding up. Anyone who has spent the day in crowds and queues usually stops talking somewhere in that quarter, which she reads as a good sign.

Olivia 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.