Ten engagements, one rail, one stage door

Each page states three things: how long that sort of evening usually runs, how far ahead to write, and which women tend to suit it. Read those names as a starting point rather than a shortlist. Anybody in the company can be asked for any of the ten, and the reply tells you honestly whether her week has room in it. Where an evening falls between two engagements, a supper that drifts into a late night out at around eleven, book the longer one, and the desk explains how the hours get counted before anything is agreed.

Room calls, dinners, late nights, couples evenings and two companion bookings all sit in the ordinary band: an hour or two of warning is usually plenty, once a name, an hour and a price have been agreed in writing. Nights through to morning, press nights and client dinners, travel and extended runs want a day or more, because tables, trains and dress codes get settled around them. The figure itself goes to her directly, and nothing about it passes through this site.

Any of them can begin at an address anywhere on the circuit, from Waterloo across the bridge up to Euston and the northern platforms, and every figure already carries the travelling inside Zones 1 and 2. Past that line the cab is counted both ways and totalled in the first reply rather than added at the end. Airport evenings take three hours as a minimum, the journey counted within them. Somebody reads messages at every hour, an answer lands in a quarter of an hour or less, and the whole sequence from first line to confirmed call is laid out on the booking page.