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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.

It is lovely to be with you tonight.

This evening we are returning to Jill.

But before that, we'll take a moment to relax and get ready for sleep.

Concentrate on how your body feels and where you are holding any tension.

Take a big stretch and allow those areas to fully relax and sink into your bed.

Now let's take some nice, deep breaths.

Inhale and collect all your thoughts and concerns from the day.

And exhale, letting them all go.

Once more, inhale and exhale.

Lovely.

The next morning, everything seemed much better with Kitty, at least so she wanted everyone else to think.

Just as Jill was packing their things to travel back from Paris to London, Kitty requested an

interview with her. She'd received a letter from her mother who had met Sir Bartholomew Brown on his return to town from the east.

Sir Bartholomew is the gentleman whose recommendation Jill had forged in order to gain her position as the Mervyn's ladiesmaid,

and who was not supposed to have returned to England.

Jill found out from the letter that Kitty had left in her dress pocket later

that Lord Mervyn's valet, Perkins, had met with Sir Bartholomew's man at a servants club and had asked about Jill after she had

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