A guest planning from home often asks what the first ten minutes look like, and with her the answer is unhurried: a greeting, a word about the room, her limits in plain terms. Body to body is the format guests name her for in advance bookings, since it needs no preparation from the hotel. She lives in De Pijp, south of the canals, a tram ride from much of the centre. Twenty-seven, dark-haired, and fluent in Romanian and English. Once a date is agreed with her weeks out, she treats it as fixed, and so should the guest. On the evening itself Blair sends a short message when she sets out, and the forty to sixty minutes run from that moment, so a guest still at dinner knows when to head back to the room. Body to body asks for a warm room and a bed and little else, and turning the heating up half an hour before she is due is the one preparation worth making. Afterwards a towel is all that is needed, and she leaves the room as tidy as she found it.

Blair 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.