The Roster · 28 names in the book
The roster: every VIP companion the Society introduces in London
What follows is the roster entire, kept the way a hostess keeps her seating plan: a first name, an age in plain figures, the quarter of London she goes home to, and a single portrait. No companion appears here until Cressida has sat across a table from her, and none remains once she has chosen to step away.
It is an adults-only roster, for adult guests. Every woman on it is over eighteen, her age taken from her own papers, and each accepts only the evenings she wants. Her first hour is £600; the rates page gives the rest of the tariff.
At 21:00
The drawing room
Portraits first, a name second, then a single message to the desk.
The circle, in full
Each portrait opens onto her complete set of photographs, her tariff and a few lines on how she keeps an evening. The figure on every frame is where the Society's tariff begins.
Angelika
Bianka
Cindy
Danielle
Jasmin
Karolina
Laura
Lea
Liana
Lucy
Luna
Margo
Michelle
Milena
Molly
Nancy
Nora
Patricia
Rosa
Roxi
Samanta
Sonya
Stacy
Thea
Tiffany
Tina
Vanessa
Violetta
That pairing draws a blank tonight. Cressida can usually propose a near match by message.
Glamour and lifestyle photographs of each companion herself, faces softened where she prefers, no nudity at all · Photo Policy · Browse by characters
Reading the frames
Under each portrait sit three particulars, name, age and home district, beside the figure at which her tariff begins. Open it for every photograph, her height and a few lines from Cressida on how she likes an evening to go. The filters above sort by age band and home district, nothing more personal.
The photographs are glamour and lifestyle work of the women themselves. A few prefer a softened face, and have one; there is no nudity anywhere on the roster. The photo policy sets out how every set is tested against the woman it shows.
First through the door in W1
Late in the evening, with a hotel in W1 waiting, Angelika, Luna and Samanta usually arrive first, since all three live in Mayfair. The Berkeley Square page and the Park Lane page name the hotels they reach soonest. Everyone else comes into W1 just as willingly, at the same figure.
Or leave the choosing to the desk
Plenty of guests never choose a name. They describe the evening instead, a dinner at eight, a reception with a dress code, a late drink on Piccadilly, and Cressida proposes the companion she would seat beside them herself, with a sentence on why. Decline her, and she proposes someone else.
Elsewhere on the map
Every visit is outcall: hotel rooms, serviced flats and private houses. Each figure on the right counts the minutes on foot from the closest Tube stop. The whole map.
Hotels close by: Claridge's · The Dorchester · 45 Park Lane. Underground: Green Park.
Hotels close by: The Dorchester · 45 Park Lane · London Hilton on Park Lane. Underground: Hyde Park Corner.
Hotels close by: The May Fair Hotel · The Chesterfield Mayfair · The Connaught. Underground: Green Park.
Hotels close by: The Ritz · The Athenaeum · The May Fair Hotel. Underground: Piccadilly Circus.
On the roster
Because the Society keeps a single tariff. Whichever companion you choose, the opening hour costs £600 and each longer evening follows one ladder; no name on the roster costs more than another.
Of course. Ask how she is at a long dinner, or whether she follows the cricket. Cressida answers from having met her, and asking commits you to nothing.
A name, then a message
Choose a portrait, or describe the evening and let Cressida choose. Every reply comes from a person, at any hour.