The questions the desk answers every day

Cordelia, who runs reception for this desk. She takes the messages, checks the diaries, writes the confirmations and deals with anything that changes on the night. She is not a companion and has never been presented as one. She is also the reason the replies read the same way at four in the afternoon and at one in the morning, which is deliberate.

An hour is usually enough on a weekday for a companion who is free, and a great many bookings are arranged the same evening. Notice buys choice rather than speed: the earlier you write, the more of the register is open to you. Overnights want a day, weekends want several.

Between fifteen and fifty five minutes, depending on where she is coming from and where you are. The desk writes the window into your confirmation before you agree to anything, and tells you while it is slipping rather than afterwards.

One hour starts at £250, ninety minutes is £400, two hours £500, three hours £700, the four hour dinner date £900 and a ten hour overnight £1,800. A weekend is quoted on request. Those figures do not change for the district, the day or the hour.

It is handed to the companion herself, in person, when she arrives, before the evening begins. The amount is exactly the figure written in your confirmation, so nothing needs working out on the night, and after that the subject does not come up again.

No. There are no extras, no supplements and no figure that appears only on the night. The single addition that exists anywhere is travel beyond Zones 1 and 2, quoted as the taxi fare both ways before you confirm and never afterwards.

Both, and roughly half the desk's evenings happen at private addresses. A flat or a house is arranged exactly as a room is: the street, the number, the flat and the name it is held under, all confirmed in writing before she sets out. She arrives as your guest, goes straight to the door and speaks to nobody on the way.

No. The desk contacts no hotel and leaves no name at any reception. She crosses the lobby, takes the lift and goes to the room, dressed for the setting you described in your message. No hotel named anywhere on this site has any arrangement with the desk, and none is asked for anything at any point.

To get her to the right door, and for nothing else. It is asked for once, at the confirmation stage, together with the name the room is booked under. It is not stored afterwards and it is not repeated to anyone.

With three hours' notice or more, nothing is owed and the desk will try to find another hour instead, that same evening if one exists. Inside two hours, half the fee applies, because the evening has already been kept clear and other things turned down. If nobody is there when she arrives, the whole fee does. She allows fifteen minutes past the start time.

Usually, if her evening is free. Ask her directly. The extra time is charged at the published ladder rather than at a figure invented on the spot, and it is settled with her in the same way.

Yes, when both are free. Each is booked for her own length at her own fee, and both confirmations come to you in writing with their own arrival windows. Ask earlier than you would for one companion, because two diaries have to line up rather than one, and the later in the evening you write the harder that becomes.

Yes. Every photograph is of the woman on whose page it appears, from a proper session rather than a library. They are glamour and lifestyle images, faces softened, nothing explicit. The photo policy explains how they are made and how often they are replaced.

Her time and her companionship for the length booked, and nothing else is offered, implied or arranged. That is stated in the same words in the terms and it is not contradicted anywhere on this site.

Yes. This site and this service are for adults aged 18 and over only, on both sides of the door. Every companion on the register is an adult and the desk does not make exceptions or take questions about it.

Into the small hours, every night. What changes after midnight is not the reply but the choice, since fewer companions are free. Cordelia names the ones who genuinely are rather than asking you to wait and see, and she will tell you plainly when the honest answer is that tomorrow would be a better evening than tonight.

As little as possible. The desk does not build files, does not keep addresses it no longer needs and never discusses one guest with another. The privacy page sets out what is held and for how long.

Twelve, from Marylebone and the West End across to the City and Canary Wharf, all listed on the service area page. For an address outside them, write anyway and the desk will quote the travel before you decide.