Betsy

Her base in the old centre puts many hotels within easy reach, and the arrival window of forty to sixty minutes is still the figure to plan the evening around. Guests booking from abroad tend to name her for nuru or a soapy session, both of which need a bathroom the room can spare for a while. She speaks Czech and English and moves between them without ceremony. She is twenty-three and blonde, and a booking made a month out finds her as attentive as one made that afternoon. Her limits are hers to state, and she states them on arrival. Before fixing nuru or soapy with Betsy from abroad, look at the bathroom photographs in the hotel listing, because a walk-in shower or a large bath decides whether either format works at all. For soapy she runs the tap to learn how hot the water gets and lays towels across the floor before anything else, and ninety minutes keeps that part unhurried. When the listing shows only a narrow cubicle, body to body is the easier evening to plan, as it asks nothing of the shower.

Betsy 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.