Rules

**Texts:** *Brideshead Revisited* by Evelyn Waugh, *The End of the Affair* by Graham Greene, and fiction by Dorothy L. Sayers. Rules is one of those restaurants authors use when they want old London to arrive fully dressed. In Greene, a lunch here helps frame adultery inside a room devoted to manners, service, and continuity; in Waugh, the restaurant belongs to a world where appetite, class, and ritual are inseparable. Its literary role is contrast. The room suggests stability, but the scenes associated with it tend to involve desire, secrecy, or moral unease. That is why Rules recurs so effectively in fiction: it gives disorder a polished silver cover.

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