Hello and welcome back to Close Reads here on the Close Reads Podcast Network. I'm David Kern,

and I am joined by Karen Swallow Pryor and Heidi White. Karen, Heidi, welcome back to the show. Thanks for being here.

Oh, thanks, David. It's good to be here. Yes. I can't wait. So we are here to discuss

sense and sensibility a little bit more.

For those of you who have the three-volume edition,

we are going to discuss the first seven chapters of volume two.

So volume two is chapter one through seven.

For the rest of you, I think it's chapters 23 through 29 or something around that.

Pick it up after the shocking ending to Chapter 22.

So we're going to discuss that in a second.

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