Our premium escort services only apply to travel to, during, and from our place of business. If you wish to be protected at other times, you would be better off hiring mercenaries to guard you day and night.
Provided, of course, you could find trustworthy mercenaries; ones who have the strength of arms you require, but obviously lacking the intelligence to understand that they could be making twice what any citizen could pay them by going to war in the name of this land.
It is not our intent to provide protective services outside the auspices of a neutral location for meetings to take place in... We only wish to allow for all of our clients (irregardless of their reasons for meeting) to arrive, enjoy, and depart alive and well....
All we ensure is this: should someone have their heart set on murder, it will not disturb your final meal, nor your enjoyment of the evening... so long as you have shown the foresight to purchase our considerable talents.
We shall, as always, endeavor to keep our patrons safe from any stray ills; yet, a humble butler, however talented, can only do so much against the likes of a master assassin such as Razoriel Wildoak.
This is why, as need dictates, we employ operatives who are battle-proven, and field-ready. These members of our establishment are subjected to rigorous training and testing before being approved for field duty in an escort situation.
Many of the items in our extensive catalogue of premium services are protective spells, or jewels, rings, potions, or scrolls. They are not as independant as our operatives, but provide their own measure of protection to and from your special evening.
We have a fine, and longstanding tradition of service. We are not starting up, as you said... I have served the Royal Family of Whiteoak for nearly four hundred years, and I know my craft well. We have been displaced by war, as are many these days, and seek to continue living in the style to which we have grown accustomed.
With no King to bend knee to, we simply do what we have always done; awaiting the time when a true and worthy Lord shall make their presence known, that we may yet again humbly bend our knee to a liege worthy of our service.
Always a pleasure to serve you,
Walter Lathann:
Royal Butler, and master chef by appointment to His late Royal Highness King Eaddick I of Whiteoak.