Olivia lives in Oud-Zuid, a short walk from the big museum square, and she has spent enough afternoons there herself to know how galleries tire the legs more than a long walk does. Her sessions are usually an hour of erotic oil or nuru, and she likes the guest to tell her in a sentence what the day has been. English is her single working language, spoken in an easy, friendly way. At twenty-six she is warm, relaxed and completely firm about the limits she sets out before the session.

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.