Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups.

I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

Each episode I'll read a few chapters from the book,

pausing from time to time to give brief explanations, so it's easier to follow along.

It's like an audiobook with built-in notes.

So brew a pot of tea, find a cozy chair, and settle in. It's story time. Hello, welcome back.

Welcome to the other side of the revelation of what this thing is that we've been waiting to find out so long.

And now we know it is that Steerforth has run off with little Emily.

Emily has run off with Steerforth, however you want to put it. And we are going to talk about that today.

I have a lot to say. I got lots of great letters. I was expecting to hear from you. And I did.

You guys did not disappoint. You never disappoint. You always write in with

the most wonderful things, the most wonderful questions and comments, and I got some today, and I'm

going to read them to you, and we're going to talk. We're going to talk about this revelation and what

it means, and then we're going to keep reading and see what else we learn, but we did it. We've come to the revelation

that has been on the table for so long, hanging over our heads for such a long time. The other thing

that has happened is that we are halfway through the book. This book has 64 chapters, so if I'm

doing the math correctly, 32 chapters is halfway through. So congratulations, we've made it

halfway. It's funny, normally at this time of the year, I would be saying that we were pretty much

almost done. We usually finish about the end of May, so I would say, oh, we have about a month

left. We're probably in the last quarter of the book. Things are probably starting to come to

their exciting conclusions, but we are not at all there. We are only halfway. And there's something kind of wonderful about that, because I don't know about you, but I love this book so much. It's wonderful to get to stay in it. It's wonderful that there is so much time left that we get to spend with David and all of his friends and some of his enemies. And so, but I did want to let you know because I said I would let you know. So we are just about halfway through the book at this point. So thank you for sticking around this long and I hope you'll stick around for the second half of the book. As I say, I have a lot to talk about. And this chapter is a fairly long one. So I I'm gonna try not to talk too much here at the

beginning so just the reminder is that tea time is this week on Thursday April 30th at 8 p.m. Eastern

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