For one week only, commencing the twenty fifth, the Fifth Floor Tea Room will serve a Haunted Afternoon Tea. Chef Crumpet has prepared a tiered stand of ghostly delicacies: a meringue in the shape of a spectre, a cold fish pie with a face, and a sponge cake that hums quietly when no one is looking.
The price is 12 treats per cat, or 20 for two. Tea will be poured by an attendant in a bedsheet who is, we are assured, entirely human. Customers are advised that the lights will flicker at four o’clock precisely. This is not a fault. It is Miss Pounce, in the lift, doing her best impression of a ghost.