Michelle, companion in SW1

About Michelle

Height is the first thing anybody registers about Michelle and the least interesting thing about her. At 173 cm she is curvy and carries it well, the dark brown hair falling long and straight, and the brown eyes crease whenever she laughs, which is often. She dresses to the shape rather than away from it, in wrap dresses and belted coats, and she wears a heel on purpose because she stopped apologising for the height somewhere around twenty three. Her posture is the best in the house.

The manner is warm and unguarded and slightly mischievous. She has English and a laugh never far behind it, and she is the easiest person here to spend a first hour with. She is curious about politics in the way people who live near Westminster become curious about it, more gossip than principle, and she is very good at getting the story out of somebody who came out intending to say nothing.

Her SW1 evening is dinner at The Cinnamon Club on Great Smith Street, in the old library with the high ceilings and the books still on the walls. She orders generously and shares everything. Chelsea is home, twenty minutes west, and she arrives with time to spare. Afterwards she walks down to Smith Square to stand in front of the church for a minute, because she maintains it is the best small square in London and she has yet to be argued out of it.

The rest of it is filed under SW1, and the lengths are set out at rates. Give booking a date and Delphine handles everything after that.

• 173 cm, curvy, and the best posture in the house
• Brown eyes; long dark brown hair, worn straight
• Twenty seven; warm English and a ready laugh
• Chelsea based, twenty minutes from Westminster
• High ceilinged rooms, generous ordering, Smith Square after

Arranging her evening

Michelle is most in her element over a long dinner, so Delphine will usually propose the dinner length rather than an hourly one. Two days' notice secures the library room at a decent hour.

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 Michelle

She will be laughing at something before you have sat down, usually about the journey, and the evening starts three stages further along than most. Michelle orders too much on purpose and pushes half of it across the table, and she takes real offence if you decline. The room helps: high ceilings, books, and a noise level that lets two people talk without performing.

She is a gifted extractor of stories. By the second hour she knows the thing you had decided not to mention, and she has told you something worse about herself to make it even. Afterwards she insists on the two minute walk to Smith Square, whatever the weather, and stands looking at the church like a tourist. Where the evening goes from there is entirely yours to choose.