Auburn and red: three women, and the colour a camera reports badly
Three women out of twenty eight, which makes this the smallest page on the index and the one guests most often arrive at deliberately. Lea is auburn and waves without being asked. Luna is a dark auburn red worn long. Patricia is an auburn brown, the quietest of the three in daylight and the most changeable under a warm lamp.
Red is the colouring a photograph handles worst, which is worth knowing before you choose from pictures. All three are recorded here as they look by a window, and all three look warmer in a room with candles in it than any camera will admit.
Particulars
Lea is 161 cm and petite, hazel eyed, 23, and lives ten minutes from Jermyn Street in Belgravia. Old maps, older restaurants and cold wine whatever the colour. She is impossible to embarrass and has a life story out of a waiter in four minutes flat.
Luna is 171 cm and curvy, brown eyed, 22, and lives inside Mayfair. Dancing, records and late tables. She is the most striking arrival on the list and, once the first drink has been poured, the easiest to sit with.
Patricia is 172 cm and slim, brown eyed, 28, and crosses from Belgravia in twenty five minutes. Drawing, auction rooms and old public houses, and a habit of leaving early rather than arriving breathless.
Three very different hours
Lea wants an evening that starts before it is properly dark: seven o'clock, a corner of an old dining room in St James's, and a first course spent establishing that neither of you is going to be difficult. The walk from Jermyn Street up to Piccadilly takes three minutes and she spends every one of them on the shop windows.
Luna starts at nine and refuses to be hurried, a drink standing up because she talks better on her feet, then a late table in Mayfair with enough noise in the room to be interesting. Patricia begins in a Victorian snug on High Holborn, which she likes partly for the tiled walls and partly because it is the least likely room in central London in which to find her.
What the three share besides the colour
Very little, and that is the honest answer. Two of them live within ten minutes of the districts they cover, which makes Lea and Luna two of the more realistic names on the site for an evening decided at short notice. Patricia is the opposite: she sets off well ahead of time and is almost never late, and she would rather walk the quiet streets than sit on Kingsway in traffic.
All three keep to a finishing hour exactly and all three say so cheerfully rather than glancing at a phone. That is a house habit rather than a colour one.
Cross references
Lea is one of the seven on petite. Luna is on curvaceous. Patricia stands on both statuesque and slim and slender, one of six women here who hold that pair.
By decade, Lea and Luna are in the early twenties and Patricia in the late twenties. Nobody from this page is in thirties and beyond.
To ask for one of the three
The hour opens at £250 for each of them, as it does everywhere on this site, and the seven lines run up to £1,800 on rates. Luna is the name for a late start, Lea for a short notice evening in SW1, Patricia for an evening that must run to time.
Send booking an hour and a building and the reply comes back with a minute rather than a window. If none of the three is free, On The Books has the other twenty five.
Tell us where.
We write the rest.
The desk is being read right now, by a person rather than a form. One line with the district and the hour is all it takes, and nothing is set until you say so.
- WhereYour hotel or flat
- WhenThe hour you name
- CompanionFrom the board
- Arrival20 to 35 minutes
- FigureQuoted in writing