Constance

In her own hours

When an evening has to stay private, ask for Constance. Discretion is a craft with her: the coat, the pace, the phone silenced before the revolving door.

Centrum addresses sit forty minutes or so from her at any hour of the night, and a strange lobby at four in the morning troubles her not at all. Her manner is warm but never familiar - a first name used no more often than necessary, and no second question about anybody's work. She has a talent for the parts of a booking nobody thinks about until they go wrong: the floor, the lift, the door that is unlocked after midnight. Bookings that run long suit her, and the ones that end with an early breakfast suit her best of all.

Constance 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.