Lucy, companion in SW1

About Lucy

Lucy arrives with her hair doing whatever it has decided to do that evening, and she is entirely untroubled by it. She is 163 cm, slender, and the long dark brown curls are the first thing anybody describes. Her eyes are brown and wide set. She dresses with a certain art school looseness that somehow reads as elegant: a long dress, a man's coat, flat shoes she can stand in for an hour without shifting her weight. She looks as though she was not trying, and she was not.

The impression is soft and the mind is not. She has English alone and uses it thoughtfully, with pauses that turn out to be worth waiting through. She looks at pictures the way other people read, slowly and more than once, and she will take you back to the same room twice in an evening to show you something she noticed the second time. She is easy to be quiet with, which is rarer than it sounds.

Her SW1 evening begins at Tate Britain on Millbank, in the late hours when the galleries have thinned out and the Turner rooms are almost empty. She has favourites and she is not shy about them. Pimlico is home, ten minutes up the road, so she suggests supper there afterwards, in one of the small rooms on Moreton Street, and then the river walk back along Millbank with Vauxhall Bridge lit in the distance.

There is more about her part of SW1 on its page, and each length is described at rates. Offer booking a date and Delphine settles the hour.

• 163 cm, slender, long dark brown curls
• Brown eyes, wide set; an unhurried way of looking
• Twenty four; thoughtful English and useful pauses
• Pimlico based, ten minutes from Millbank
• Galleries late, small suppers, the river on the way back

Arranging her evening

Lucy likes a late afternoon start so the galleries are quiet before supper, which usually means five o'clock. Delphine will hold four hours as a matter of course, since three is never quite enough for her.

Her figures are the house figures, set out in full on the rates page, and the whole arrangement runs in one written exchange from the first line to the confirmation.

An evening with Lucy

She will have a room in mind before you arrive and she will not tell you which one until you are standing in it. Lucy walks a gallery slowly and doubles back constantly, and she has a habit of standing slightly too close to a painting and then apologising to nobody in particular. She asks what you think before she says what she thinks, every time.

Supper afterwards is small and unhurried, somewhere in Pimlico with eight tables and a kitchen you can hear. She talks more once she is sitting down, and by the second glass she is funny in a strange, sideways way that catches people off guard. The walk back along the river is her favourite part of the whole evening. What follows it is left entirely to you.