Bank and Monument, no. 12 of 28
Margo, companion in Bank and Monument
Thirty one, entirely unbothered, and always five minutes early.
- Age
- 31
- Works from
- Bank and Monument
- Height
- 166 cm
- Hair
- long, straight dark brown
- Eyes
- brown
- Figure
- slim
- Languages
- English
- An hour opens at
- £250
Guests are 18+. She sets the limits of her own booking, and a fee covers her time and her company, nothing besides. The whole ladder is on the rates page.
About Margo
Thirty one suits Margo far better than twenty five ever did and she will tell you so within the hour. Call it 166 cm, a slim frame, dark brown hair long and straight and parted simply, and brown eyes that give the impression of having heard it before and found it funny anyway. Her clothes are severe and expensive looking without ever announcing a name: a narrow dress, a good coat, one ring. She has the posture of someone who sat through a great many long meetings and refused to slump in any of them.
The conversation is the point with Margo. Her English is plain and her humour in it very dry, delivered at the same volume as everything else so that it takes a beat to land. She has no patience for pretension and a soft spot for anyone honest about being out of their depth. She collects fountain pens, reads two newspapers properly rather than five badly, and is the only woman here who will ask you about interest rates and actually want the answer.
Her corner of the City is Leadenhall Market, five minutes from Monument, where the painted ironwork and that cathedral of a roof still stop people in the middle of the walkway. She likes the bars under it at about eight, when the traders have gone and the whole market echoes. From there it is four minutes to the Monument and eight to the river if the night wants a walk. Knightsbridge is home, and she rates the eastbound Central line at seven at night as one of this city's calmer pleasures.
The market and the streets around it are on the Bank and Monument page. An hour is £250, the longer evenings are priced on rates, and booking will say which nights she has open.
- Height 166 cm, slim build
- Long dark brown hair, worn straight; eyes brown
- Age 31, English speaking
- Home district Knightsbridge, evenings across EC3 and E14
- Out of hours: fountain pens, newspapers, long dinners
Booking her evening
Dinner is the format that fits her: four hours at £900, with conversation given proper room. She is out of London for three weeks and Maude is taking bookings for the evenings after that.
Her figures are the desk figures, printed in full on the rates page, and the whole arrangement runs in one thread from the first line to the confirmation.
- 1 hour£250
- 90 minutes£400
- 2 hours£500
- 3 hours£700
- Dinner date£900
- Overnight£1,800
- WeekendPOA
Also on the desk
An evening with Margo
She will pick eight o'clock, when the market has emptied and the roof does that thing with the sound. Leadenhall in the evening is a Victorian cathedral built for meat and fish, painted cream and claret, and there is usually one bar under it with four people in it and room to think. She talks properly: what you read, what you got wrong this year, why the office you work in was built the way it was. There is no performance and there is no flattery, which some people find startling for about ten minutes. Later, four minutes' walk takes you to the Monument, and another eight to the river at Swan Lane, where the bridge traffic goes over and the water underneath does not care. Dinner is chosen without fuss and eaten slowly.
Margo, in her own words
When are you back?
Three weeks. I am abroad with family, and I am not the sort to pretend otherwise and then cancel on the night.
Why the market rather than a tower?
Because it has a ceiling worth looking up at, and because at eight o'clock it is empty and the sound of it is remarkable.
What do you want from an evening?
A real conversation and no hurry. I have sat through enough polite ones to know the difference within about four minutes.
Where she sits
What guests have written
Nothing is written here for Margo yet, which is usually what discretion looks like in E14. A note appears only when a guest writes one, she agrees to it, and the desk has checked that it reads as a first name, a month and nothing private.