Bond Street is Bond Street all right. You can find it in any street directory. But the big store, by the name of Rammell’s, is entirely imaginary. So is everybody connected with it. The directors, the management, the models, the assistants, the buyers, the shopwalkers, the secretaries, have no living counterparts. Nor have the manufacturers, the wholesalers and the travellers. All wives are imaginary, too. In short, this is a work of fiction. And nothing but fiction. Only Bond Street itself is real.