The Roster · Pimlico · SW1V
Lucy, on the steep benches of the Royal Institution
Dark curls, a soft voice, and she can find Jupiter from a Mayfair balcony.
Available todayDays, or evenings in the middle of the week
- Age
- 24
- Height
- 163 cm · 5 ft 4 in
- Hair
- long, curly dark brown
- Eyes
- brown
- Figure
- slender
- Languages
- English
- Home district
- Pimlico · SW1V
The full set
Four photographs, all of Lucy herself: glamour and lifestyle shots, some with the face softened, none with nudity. Tap any frame for the larger print. How we photograph.
Lucy, in brief
Something in Lucy's expression is always faintly elsewhere, as if part of her were keeping watch on the sky. She is slender, 163 cm, with long dark brown curls that decline to be tamed and brown eyes that brighten at the smallest wonder. Her look is coastal and a little bohemian: silver-grey silk, a long knitted coat, a moonstone ring she turns while she thinks. She laughs softly and often, usually at herself.
Dreamy, artistic and tender, she can make an ordinary evening feel slightly enchanted. Mid twenties. She speaks English quietly and notices small things the way painters do. Astronomy is the deepest interest; a star chart hangs above her desk, and she can find Jupiter from a hotel balcony even in the glare of central London. Espresso happens daily, standing, in two swallows. Running keeps her grounded, early, beside the river while the city sleeps.
Her ideal beginning in W1 is a Friday discourse at the Royal Institution, in the lecture theatre where Faraday once showed Londoners what electricity could do. She loves the steep wooden benches and the weight of history in the room. Supper follows somewhere close and quiet, where she will put the talk's best idea into a single sentence and then ask what you made of it. If every seat is taken, she keeps a second plan: the roof terrace of your hotel and a small pair of binoculars in her bag.
Lucy lives in Pimlico, a short journey from Piccadilly. Daytime hours and midweek evenings are hers to give, and one message to Cressida is enough to arrange them; for a lecture night, write a day ahead.
The hours, priced
The Society's figures apply to Lucy as to everyone on the roster: stated in pounds, given to her yourself at the door, and with her journey inside Zones 1 and 2 already folded in.
| Hour | Length | Fee | Suits | Enquire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19:00 | One hourThe introduction | £600 | Long enough for a glass at the bar and a proper conversation, and a gentle way to begin. | Enquire |
| 23:00 | Ninety minutesThe nightcap | £900 | The hour with room left over for a second glass and an unhurried goodbye. | Enquire |
| 21:00 | Two hoursThe long drink | £1,100 | An evening in, or an opening two streets away, without anyone glancing at a watch. | Enquire |
| 22:00 | Three hoursThe second act | £1,500 | Supper somewhere small, then the remainder of the evening at a pace you set together. | Enquire |
| 20:00 | Four hoursThe table for two | £1,800 | Shaped around a single good table, from the first course to the last car home. | Enquire |
| 00:00 | Ten hoursUntil morning | £3,000 | From the first glass of the evening to breakfast in the suite. Ask a day ahead where you can. | Enquire |
| Fri | Two nights or moreThe weekend away | from £6,000 | In London or further afield, with one figure for the whole stay once the dates are fixed. | Enquire |
Past Zone 2, airports and changes of plan: Rates
Lucy, after dark
Somewhere in a good evening with Lucy there is a view of the sky. On a clear night she may suggest a rooftop drink, find the brightest planet within a minute and tell you its story. On a cloudy one, a lecture first, science made beautiful, then a small restaurant where the talk drifts from black holes to the best espresso in London to a painting she saw once and never forgot. She is gentle, attentive company with a gift for making you notice things: the colour of the dusk, the shape of a cornice, the moon lifting over Green Park. She keeps a planisphere in her bag for emergencies. Nothing ends abruptly. She leaves you with the odd, pleasant sense of having travelled a long way without leaving W1.
Lucy answers
Jupiter. It is bright, it hardly twinkles, and finding it always makes the evening feel properly begun. Saturn takes longer, and rewards the patience.
Standing up, in two sips, with a glass of water first. Anything else is a latte in disguise.
Morning, before the city wakes. The river is silver, the pavements are empty and nobody asks me anything.
Remarks in the book
The page is still blankNo remarks have been entered for Lucy yet. When a guest writes something worth keeping, and she agrees, it appears here beneath the guest's first name, with the month set beside it. Nothing on this page is ever composed by the Society.
Entered only after Cressida has read them · signed with a first name and the month only · withdrawn whenever Lucy asks
A line for Lucy
Lucy is already named. Fill in the brackets, send it, and Cressida answers every line in a single reply.
Good evening Cressida. May I book Lucy for [length] on [date], from [time]? I shall be at [hotel name], and will pass on the room number once you confirm.
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From After Dark Notes
- 6 min readSide doors, quiet lifts and unlisted floors: the hidden plan of a grand London hotelGrand hotels are built with more than one door, lifts that answer to a key and floors the buttons leave out. What each one is for, and why the Society still prefers the front door.
- 5 min readThe corner table: why where you sit outranks what you orderAcross, beside or at the corner: the seat decides the conversation. How to read a dining room, ask for the banquette without fuss and rescue an evening when the table is wrong.
Send word about Lucy
Mention Lucy by name and the evening you have in mind. If she is spoken for, Cressida will say so plainly and suggest someone close in spirit.