Dear Mary….
Q. During August there was a time when members of Brooks’s were allowed into White’s. A Test match was on and I wanted to see what the score was but the gun, or operator, to switch on the set was resting in the hands of a fairly aged member who was fast asleep at the back of the room. There was no one else present in the room. If you are in somebody else’s club, what is the protocol about taking the operator out of the more legitimate member’s hands?
J.S.S., London W1
A. You were fortunate to have this rare opportunity to breach the portals of White’s, since the club does not normally collude with the system of offering hospitality on a reciprocal basis to members of other clubs in St James’s whose premises are being ‘cleaned’. This happens annually in August when most members are away abroad or shooting.
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