Natalie lives in De Pijp and spends her own free days walking the city, so she knows which routes leave a visitor footsore by teatime. Four hands with a second therapist the guest has named is a booking she enjoys, and on her own she leans towards warm body to body. Ukrainian, Russian and English are all hers, and she moves between them without a pause. At twenty-six she is poised, a good listener and plain about her limits from the very start. For four hands the two women arrive together and spend the opening minutes on the room, pulling the bed out from the wall if they need to reach both sides of it. Half the fee is sent ahead on any booking with two therapists, whatever its length or hour. On her own she asks for the heating to be turned well up before body to body, since the contact builds slowly and a cold room would work against it.

Natalie 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.