Statuesque: nine companions, 172 cm and upward

Michelle is 173 cm and curvy, twenty seven, and knows every entrance on the Bath Road from Harlington Corner to the Longford turn. Angelika is 172 cm and athletic, twenty four, and walks the same road without hurrying. Stacy is 176 cm and slim, twenty two, and keeps to the southern side of the perimeter where a four minute covered walkway saves you the weather on the way to Terminal 4.

Milena is 175 cm and curvy, twenty five, and books more evenings on Stockley Road than anywhere else out here. Vanessa is 173 cm and slim with hazel eyes, twenty five, and covers the same West Drayton ground from the lakes and the towpath end.

Patricia is 172 cm and slim, twenty eight, and takes Harmondsworth, where the village kept a High Street and a six hundred year old barn a mile and a half from a live runway.

Karolina is 174 cm and slim, twenty seven, and starts her evenings in a village pub that was pouring drinks long before the runways were laid. Samanta is also 174 cm and slim, twenty seven, and is five minutes by road from the Terminal 5 gates on an address that is technically Colnbrook and technically Berkshire.

Violetta is 178 cm, tall and slender, thirty, and takes the airport hotels furthest from a gate. She is away until early October and takes longer evenings when she is back.

Every one of the nine dresses for the building rather than for the spotlight, which at an airport hotel means a good coat, something plain underneath and a heel chosen for lobby marble and nothing more ambitious. Crossing an atrium they look like guests arriving for a drink, because that is exactly what they are.

If height is the thing you actually care about, say so in the first message. Hester would rather place you with one of the nine than have you politely disappointed by a name she liked the sound of.

Three hours is £700, four hours with dinner is £900, and a night is £1,800. Her travel out from town is inside the figure, which is why nothing here runs shorter than three hours. The rates page has every rung and the fee passes to her by hand when she arrives.

By build, Michelle and Milena are also under curvaceous, Angelika under toned and athletic, and Karolina, Patricia, Samanta, Stacy, Vanessa and Violetta among the slim and slender. By age, Angelika and Stacy are in the early twenties and Violetta in the thirties.

Several of the nine are the names the desk reaches for when a guest needs a plus one at a conference hotel. That arrangement is set out on conference hotels and client tables.