Blue Room 8, The Blue Room

Beside the large, prosperous and respectable living room lies a sort of recess or alcove, which when stumbled into reveals itself as surprisingly long and dense, like an alleyway, very sepulchral and shadowy, with a threatening bluish light, leading to its common name, the Blue Room. Set against the opposite wall is a long wooden bench.
Once the entrance to the Blue Room is discovered, you realise it is only a sort of ante-chamber to the main livingroom, partitioned off, as though it were in some manner secret or shameful. You cross the threshold into the large, white-walled livingroom blinking in the light. And your feet sinking in the soft floor.
In this ante-chamber, known by the household as the Blue Room, sit a dozen prostitutes, sent by a local boarding-house for this very purpose. Wearily and gaudily made up, some wigs, a sparkling of glitter, heels, a bit of cleavage, a hot pant or two. Chubby-thighed lackadaisacal girls with crossed arms, wanting a fag, older women with softly amused faces spectral in the blue light, rolling their eyes at one another. Their bums on the wood bench.
Now as evening comes on and the shadows get deeper among the padded walls, the hookers are sent for one or two at a time. They appear to work in shifts. At periods of say ten minutes each they depart, swinging their handbags, heels sinking in the soft floor, as they march briskly through the lounge.
It can only be surmised that upstairs the clients have begun to arrive, and are waiting nervously in sparse rooms for the expected blow. Maybe these tarts are going to service the man of the house, waiting above redfaced and salacious, unbuttoning his waistcoat.
Perhaps this marks the commencement of their shifts, and they depart one by one to pre-assigned streetcorners and doorways, to dank and draughty sidewalks under streetlight. Waiting for the shifty sidling john.
Like in a doctor's waiting-room: "Next!" and up gets the next hooker in line, arms folded, huffy downturned mouth, glides out of the Blue Room and into the light.