Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

I'm Karen Swallow Pryor.

And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are

discussing, in which, on which we are discussing Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

You discuss something on a podcast, right?

Yeah.

On which.

It's on which.

During which?

During which.

That works.

We are discussing Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

We are going to discuss chapters, I guess, 25 through 27.

We said 25 through 28 on the original schedule.

But for the sake of time, we're just going to focus on 25, 26, and 27.

Heidi, are you prepared to tell us what happened

in these three chapters? I'm not trusted. Okay, so. No, it was. We're alternating. We're alternating.

This is the part. This is what we've all been waiting for. Jane is preparing for her marriage. She's getting married the next day.

But she had a bad experience. So she has this sense of foreboding. And she goes out into the storm to meet

Rochester. And when he finally comes home after doing business on his estates far away, she tells him about how an intruder has come into her room and destroyed

her wedding veil, and she has this terrible sense of foreboding, and he dismisses this. And then the next day,

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