Alejandro, 52

Alejandro is fifty-two, head of an old Spanish family with vineyards in Rioja, a shipping company in Bilbao and a classic wooden yacht he sails around the Balearics every summer. He is married, comfortably and a little sadly, to a woman who prefers Madrid and her own friends. Grey-bearded, sun-browned and elegant in linen, he has the unhurried manners of a man who has never had to rush anything, and he treats waiters and ministers with exactly the same gallantry. He noticed you alone at the marina bar in Mallorca and sent over a bottle of his own wine with an invitation to sail tomorrow. He is patient. He can wait for your answer.