The Albion Courier, Features Desk 

[Mrs. DeBourgh, Member of the House of Resources for Rosings Mining Company, agreed to speak with the Courier at Rosings. The interview was conducted on her terms, at her preferred time, and in a room she had clearly arranged for the purpose.] 

There are interviews where you feel like the one in charge of the conversation. This was not one of them. 

Mrs. DeBourgh received us in what her assistant, Miss Price, described to us as the smaller of Rosings’s two formal reception rooms.  It was not small. It was appointed with the kind of deliberate magnificence that signals not wealth exactly, though wealth is certainly present, but priority: this is what I have chosen to show you, and I have chosen carefully. Mrs. DeBourgh herself sat at the far end of a long table, which meant that you spent the first thirty seconds of the meeting walking toward her while she watched you do it. Whether this was intentional is a question she would almost certainly consider beneath her. 

She is, in person, exactly what her public record suggests: formidable, precise, and entirely comfortable with the impression she makes.  

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