Emily

She talks in understatement: an hour that went well she will call quite nice, and mean something considerable by it. Her technique is slow and even, the gel kept hot, the glide unbroken from shoulder to heel so that you lose track of where one pass ended and the next began. Bookings reach her from all around the canal ring, and rarely a great deal further than that. Overnights she keeps for people she has already met, a preference she stopped apologising for a long time ago.

Emily 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.