Margo, companion in Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3

Terminals two and three share a station, a bus tunnel and a permanent sense of being between things, and Margo has made a speciality of the hour after you leave them. Slim, 166 cm, her dark brown hair long and straight, her brown eyes reading a room once and then losing interest in it. At thirty one she dresses like somebody who gave up guessing years ago: navy or black, a single bracelet, a coat cut close. She is never the loudest person in a hotel bar and she is generally the one being watched.

She is dry, worldly and very hard to shock, which makes her the right company for a guest whose week has gone badly and who would rather not perform through it. She does not flatter. If your plan for the evening is a poor one she will say so and propose a better one, and she is usually right. English is her language, used sparingly and exactly. She reads long biographies and holds strong opinions about people who have been dead for a century.

In the central area a single hotel is close enough to walk to from the terminals, and she often starts there simply because it is the one address where nobody has to get into a car. From the central terminals it is ten minutes out to the Bath Road hotels by road, or a slower free ride on the airport buses if you are not pressed. Margo comes in from Knightsbridge on the Piccadilly line, fifty minutes, and she is reliably early. Three hours is the shortest booking here and her travel sits inside it.

Which central hotels you can walk to and which need a car is set out on the Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3 page, and Hester will give you Margo's next date back on this side without any fuss.

• Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3, TW6 and UB3
• 166 cm, slim
• Long straight dark brown hair, brown eyes
• Thirty one, travels in from Knightsbridge
• Walking distance from the central terminals

For the central terminals Hester works from your flight rather than the hotel, because a guest at Terminal 2 and a guest at Terminal 3 are minutes apart and can share the same room block. Three hours minimum, travel included.

Her figures are the desk figures, published in full on rates, and the whole arrangement runs in one thread from the first line to the confirmation. Every frame in the hall is reached from the hall.