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Good evening and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

I'm your host, Elizabeth, and I'm so pleased to be here with you tonight.

This evening we are returning to Cranford, but first let's take some time to get comfortable in bed.

Once you've found a cozy spot, take a nice deep inhale, and then a long sigh to let it all go.

Working your way up from your toes to your eyebrows

gently tense and release each muscle in your body.

Going back to repeat any areas that need extra attention.

Continue at your own pace, and don't worry about falling asleep tonight. We all drift off in our own time.

Just allow your mind to be enticed into the story and move away from any thoughts from the day that are trying to steal your focus.

Miss Pole had come to see Miss Matty to discuss how to address a lady of the peerage,

as they had heard the evening before

that Mrs. Jameson was to have her sister-in-law

Lady Glenmeyer stay with her for a time and they were sure to be invited for a visit.

Later that day Mrs Jamies for any of the ladies of Cranford to make a call.

And in no uncertain terms nervously made it clear that she did not wish for any of the ladies of Cranford to make a call at her home

on the arrival of her ladyship.

Great offence was taken all round at this, and the women would not even look at Mrs. Jameson

or her sister-in-law when they came upon them in church.

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