Sonya, companion in Knightsbridge

About Sonya

Thirty two, and Sonya has arrived at the age where she no longer explains herself. She is 162 cm with an athletic build, long dark brown hair worn straight, and hazel eyes that hold a person without any weight behind the look. She dresses in narrow, quiet clothes, mostly in charcoal and ink, and she wears almost no jewellery because she decided years ago that it did not suit her. Nothing about her appearance is trying to win an argument.

She is the calmest company here and the hardest to unsettle. She speaks English slowly, with the particular authority of somebody who does not repeat herself. She swims most days, she reads two newspapers properly, and she has a dry way of summarising a situation in one sentence that ends the discussion. She is a very good person to spend a difficult week with.

Knightsbridge has been home for years and Mr Chow on Knightsbridge is the room she keeps going back to, because it has not changed and she does not want it to. She asks for the same table, orders without the menu and eats properly. Afterwards she walks the length of Brompton Road towards the museums and then cuts back through the small streets to the south, which she says is the only way to see the district without the traffic in the way.

What an evening on her own streets involves is spelled out under Knightsbridge, and the lengths live at rates. Your date, sent to booking, reaches Delphine directly.

• 162 cm, athletic, long dark brown hair worn straight
• Hazel eyes, and a gaze with no weight behind it
• Thirty two; slow, authoritative English
• Knightsbridge based, the whole evening on foot
• One room she has known for years, and the walk after

Arranging her evening

Sonya keeps a short diary and fills it early, so a few days' notice makes a real difference. Delphine takes the date and the address and confirms once.

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 Sonya

She does not perform the first hour and she does not expect you to either. Sonya orders, settles, and waits to see what sort of evening you have brought with you, and then she matches it exactly. People who arrive tired leave better than they came, which is the thing she is quietly best at.

The conversation is slow and worth the pace. She is direct when asked a direct question and she is entirely without curiosity about anybody's business but the person in front of her. Afterwards the walk along Brompton Road is her habit, then the quiet streets behind it where nothing is open and nobody is about. How the evening ends is yours to decide, and she is comfortable with whatever you choose.