Three auburns, the rarest colouring on this desk
Three women here have auburn hair, which makes this the shortest list on the site and the one that empties fastest when two of them are away at once. The three shades are genuinely different: a wavy auburn that changes under lamplight, a dark auburn red worn loose and heavy, and an auburn brown that reads warm rather than red.
They are also three quite different kinds of evening, which is convenient for a list this short. One is country and quiet, one is theatre and talk, and one is late and unbothered by a runway.
Auburn and red, on the board
The three
Lea is petite at 161 cm with long wavy auburn hair and hazel eyes, and she is happiest where the nearest streetlight is some way off. Her evenings run out of the country houses around Burnham, where the dining rooms keep their own pace and the grounds are worth twenty minutes before you go in.
Luna has long dark auburn red hair and brown eyes, curvy at 171 cm, and she wears colour rather than black on purpose. She is the theatre name in Windsor, excellent in an interval and willing to revise a verdict on the first half.
Patricia is auburn brown and slim at 172 cm, calm in a corner of the county that never really sleeps. She takes late starts as a speciality out at Colnbrook and is unbothered by a flight that moves, provided the desk hears about it.
Picking between three
It is nearly always the evening that decides rather than the shade. A long dinner in a house with grounds goes to Lea. A night with a curtain time in it goes to Luna, who will say honestly if there is nothing worth seeing that week. Anything with a landing time attached goes to Patricia, and it runs to three hours because the travel sits inside the booking.
Three sizes as well as three shades
Lea is 161 cm and petite, Luna 171 and curvy, Patricia 172 and slim, so even with the hair left out of it nobody would mistake one for another. Lea's eyes are hazel and the other two have brown. They come out from different parts of London too: Lea by train to Burnham, Luna down through Slough, Patricia by way of Terminal 5, which is the right door for her corner of the county.
Pick Lea for quiet, woodland and a fire. Pick Luna for talk and a stage, and give her four hours, since Windsor curtains fall late and the kitchens shut early. Pick Patricia for a late dinner after a long day, which is exactly the sort of evening she enjoys most.
Where the three cross
Lea is on the petite list, Luna on curvaceous, and Patricia on both statuesque and slim and slender. By age Lea and Luna sit in the early twenties band and Patricia in the late twenties.
With only three names this list is the one most worth asking about in advance. who is on shows who is taking bookings, and Etta will hold a night for a return rather than steer you somewhere you did not choose.
Flag her down
Give a town and give an hour. What comes back has a name in it, the minute she can knock and the figure for those hours, all three in the one reply.