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. I'm so glad you're here. We have so much to talk about. I feel like

maybe even more to talk about after this chapter than after the chapter where it was revealed

what the big thing

was that was going to happen. I don't know. So many different things happened in this last chapter

that I feel like we have lots to discuss, and it's kind of a longest chapter that's coming up,

so I won't take too much of your time right now at the beginning. The only reminder that I have

is that tonight. so if you're listening

in real time, it is tonight, Thursday, April 30th at 8 p.m. is tea time. Tea time happens over

in our online community, which is called the drawing room because in old Victorian houses,

there was always a drawing room and it was short for

withdrawing room because it was where you would withdraw after dinner was over

you would go in there and you would chat with your house guests or your family

members you might read you might play board games or card games and you would

talk about life and you were talk about life, and you would talk about

what you were reading and the gossip. And that's what we like to do. Every month, we like to

withdraw to the drawing room, which is our online community, and chat. And so that is going to

happen tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern. And I hope that you will come. If you are not yet a member and it is not

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