Eighteen questions the desk actually gets asked

Ten to fifteen minutes, at any hour of the day or night. The desk is staffed overnight, so a message sent at half past three gets the same answer in the same time as one sent at seven in the evening.

Twenty minutes if she starts in your postcode, thirty to forty across the middle of the city. Your confirmation carries a real arrival time rather than a window, and between seven and nine it already allows for the roads being slower than the platforms.

It opens at £250 and the whole ladder up to a ten hour night at £1,800 is printed on the rates page. The figures are identical for every name on On The Books.

No. One hour is £250 in Mayfair, in Bloomsbury and everywhere between them. Travel inside Zones 1 and 2 sits inside the fee, so the district changes nothing about the total.

It goes to her in her hand, in person, in the first minute she is in the room, and it is exactly the figure in your confirmation. Nothing lands at the end, no service charge exists and nobody is waiting for a tip.

Every rung undercuts the one above it once you divide by the hours, so three hours at £700 costs less per hour than two at £500, and the ten hour night at £1,800 is the cheapest hour on the sheet. One long evening asks less of a diary than three separate arrivals do, and the desk would rather arrange one of those than three of the other.

Four things when you write: the hour, the length, the building, and either a name or a description of the evening. Then one check, the name the reservation carries with the building and the room number, matched once and of no further interest to anybody.

Never. No hotel named anywhere on this site has an arrangement with this house and none has been approached for one. She crosses the lobby as your guest, takes the lift and knocks. Nobody at a desk is involved.

Yes, and a good many guests prefer it. She will be in the bar at the hour agreed, occupied with something rather than scanning the room. The room number is given at confirmation and nowhere else.

Of course, and in some districts most bookings do. Give the street, the block, the floor and whether there is a porter or an entryphone. Everything else, the figures included, is identical to a hotel booking.

Two hours covers most hotel bookings in the centre. A restaurant table is better raised the day before. A night through to the morning, an event or a journey out of the zone wants a day or two, because the diary has to be cleared rather than slotted.

One line moves it. Three hours of warning and there is nothing to settle; under two, half the figure holds; a door nobody opens costs the whole of it. A quarter of an hour of slack sits inside every booking regardless.

Yes. Every set is of the woman you will meet, taken within the last year or replaced when it stops being accurate. Faces are softened at the companions' own request and nothing else about an image is altered. What is and is not done to a picture here is set out in full on the photo policy page, and if what arrives does not match the page, the desk wants to hear about it.

Her hours and her company through them. Fees are for time and companionship only, and nothing else is offered, listed or implied anywhere on this site or by the desk.

Yes, and it is the most common pattern on longer stays. Say so when you first write and the desk will hold the second evening rather than leave it to chance. The rate is the same on the second evening as the first.

Adults aged 18 and over only, and the same applies to everybody who works with this desk. Every companion introduced here is an adult, verified before her page was written. Any message suggesting otherwise, or asking for something this house does not arrange, is declined without discussion.

That is most of what happens here. Restaurants, hotel bars, a performance, a private dinner with other people at the table. Name the place when you write and she comes to it rather than to a lobby, dressed for the room she is walking into.

Describe the evening instead of picking a name: the hour, the restaurant, whether there are other people in it, whether you want conversation or quiet. The desk will suggest two or three names with the reason attached to each, and will say plainly when somebody is a poor match rather than sell you an adjacent option.