What 24/7 obliges the house to do
Round the clock is an easy phrase to print and an expensive one to honour, so here is what it means in practice. A person, not an automated responder, reads every message that arrives, at every hour of every date the calendar holds. The reply keeps the same rhythm at 3am as at 3pm: roughly ten minutes to a name and an arrival window. The fourteen are not all awake at once, since nobody could live that way, but their diaries are arranged so that the night is covered as deliberately as the evening. When no suitable woman is free at the exact minute you name, the thread says so and offers the nearest honest alternative, a later start or a different name, rather than leaving your message unanswered until breakfast.











