Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups. I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. 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. Hi, everyone. So just a reminder, this episode is pre-recorded. I'm way until the 27th. I'll be back with you in real time then. But we're still going to do the recap, a little discussion, and the chapters.

So we're going to get right into that. And just one quick note before we do. This is now,

we are now in the second epoch, which is sort of like the second part of the narrative. And so

the chapter numbers have started again. So even though we're still with Marion, this is

Halcom's narrative

one again because it is the first chapter of the second epoch. So if you're following along

in your books, that's what's going on here. That's why it's labeled one again instead of three.

So now the chapters will begin from one until we get to the third epoch because there are three.

So don't forget, all of the same things are true, even though I'm not here in real time,

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Let's come back to even more listeners than we had before I left.

So here is the recap from last time. All right, so where we left

off, Marion and Laura were called home to Limeridge House because, as Marion suspected,

the date of Laura's wedding to Sir Percival has now been set. They're going to be married on

the 22nd of December, and even though Marion wanted to protest and say they should

wait longer, Laura said that it should go forward, because she might as well get it over with,

basically. Laura can't quite keep her resolution never to speak of Walter again and asks

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