Patricia, 28, gentle company from the Jordaan

Jordaan is a grid of small streets where nothing is very far from anything else, and Patricia has lived in it long enough to know which bookshops open on a Monday. That is her neighbourhood in one sentence, and it fits her. The canal ring hotels are a few minutes from her door, the business district an easy drive, the airport reachable well inside the hour, and Jordaan is where she will suggest walking if the afternoon is free and the weather is behaving.

At 28 she is gentle without being passive and romantic without being sentimental, which is a narrow line and she walks it easily. Attentive is the third word on file and the most useful one for a guest: she notices when a conversation should change direction, and changes it without announcing that she has. Her line reads 172 centimetres, slim, long auburn brown hair, brown eyes, English.

Watercolour painting is the practice she keeps up properly, small studies rather than ambitious ones. Film noir is the enthusiasm, the American and French strands both, watched closely enough to argue about, and Danielle shares that taste for the older end of cinema. Second-hand bookshops are the third habit, the kind of browsing that costs an hour and produces more books than anyone can sensibly carry, which Violetta also does.

Soft romantic bohemian is the term she uses, and the four daylight frames, all taken on coastal rock, run from a linen shirt to a floral dress. Book her for a long dinner and a quiet bar, for an afternoon of galleries, or for an evening that is meant to feel like an evening rather than an appointment. She is punctual, she is calm about changes, and she leaves as quietly as she arrives.