Questions Delphine is asked most often

By WhatsApp or by Telegram, whichever you prefer. Both arrive at the same desk and the same person, and there is no other channel. Write the day, the hour, the length you want from the tariff and the address, and Delphine answers in the same thread. There is no telephone line to ring and no form to complete, which is deliberate: a written thread means the hour, the length and the figure are all in one place and nobody is relying on memory.

Her time and her companionship, and nothing else. That is the whole of the arrangement, it is stated the same way in the footer of every page here, and it is not negotiable at any figure or any length.

With your companion herself, in person, when she arrives at your door. It is exactly the figure Delphine wrote into your thread when she confirmed the booking, and nothing is added to it once the evening has begun. If you decide on the night that you would like longer, the booking is rewritten at the next length on the tariff rather than stretched an hour at a time.

In writing, in the same thread you wrote from. Delphine sends back your companion's name, the length, the figure in whole pounds and the minute she will ring, and your companion is briefed from exactly the same lines. Read it when it arrives: if the hour, the door or the length is not what you meant, one reply puts it right while there is still time to change it.

One hour from £250, ninety minutes £400, two hours £500, three hours £700, a four hour dinner date £900, and ten hours overnight £1,800. A weekend is quoted on request. The whole ladder with its notes is on the tariff page. Those are the only figures this house uses.

Every one of them, without exception. No name in the Salon is priced above the others and none below, and the switchboard has never quoted one woman at a different figure from another. Ask for the companion you want rather than the one you assume you can afford.

Not inside the two central fare zones, which covers nearly everything this house attends, from the Mayfair blocks to the Belgravia squares. Beyond Zone 2 the fare both ways is added and quoted as one sum before you agree to anything. She travels by car rather than by train in every case, so a station map is useful to you and entirely irrelevant to her arrival time.

Yes. Heathrow and Gatwick bookings run at three hours or longer, with her travelling time counted inside that, and are quoted as a single figure. If you are coming into town in any case, a central address is simpler and costs less.

Write by the middle of the afternoon and the whole circle is open to you for that evening. At shorter notice somebody good will still come, though from whoever the day book has left. For a particular name on a particular night, a day ahead is comfortable. For an overnight, or for a particular evening in a busy week, write a day ahead and Delphine will hold it in the day book and confirm again nearer the time.

With three hours of warning or more, nothing is owed and the evening can simply be moved. Inside two hours, half the agreed fee stands. An evening that nobody appears for is charged in full, and there is a quarter of an hour of grace on the start.

You hear it from the switchboard at once, and Delphine offers another hour or another companion. The length you booked begins when she arrives, so a delay on her side never comes out of your time.

Both, and in some districts the houses outnumber the hotels considerably. For a private address Delphine wants the street, the number, the floor, the name on the bell and anything the entrance needs. For a hotel, the surname the room is under, the hotel and the room number. A private address is no more complicated than a suite, and in several of these districts the houses outnumber the hotels considerably.

No. This house has no arrangement with any hotel in London and never telephones one. Your companion crosses the lobby as your invited guest, which is precisely what she is.

Everybody, on both sides of the door, and entirely seriously. Every companion here is an adult of 18 or over, every guest must be, and there is no circumstance in which this house would arrange otherwise. The same applies to anybody else who might be present: a companion is told who she is expecting to find, and an evening that turns out to hold something she was not told about ends there.

Yes. They are taken for this house, they are of the woman on the page, and they are replaced when she changes. How they are made and what is never done to them is set out on the photographs page.

Both, and most of this house's work is repeat work. Tell Delphine the pattern you would like, a standing evening each month or three nights in one week, and she writes them into the day book together rather than taking them one at a time. Repeat bookings are also the simplest ones to arrange, since the door, the building and the way she should present herself are already settled and need no fresh explanation.