Pemberley Digital: The Woodhouse protocol and the Mansfield Strategy

In which the staff left behind at Pemberley Digital make a surprising decision about how to respond to the Domino demos.

Offices of Pemberley Digital, San Francisco

Monday, 8 AM: Emergency Inter-Departmental Strategy Session

The press release lay on the polished conference table, silently mocking Pemberley Digital’s General Manager, Reynolds.

“Who released this?”

“We did.”

“Very funny, Miss Hurst. We are all aware that we did. What I want to know is how that happened?”

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant." ”

—Persuasion,Jane Austen, letter from Captain Wentworth