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, welcome back. You guys are awesome. I just need to take a minute to say that. You guys are

amazing. After the last episode, I was really worried that I was going to lose everyone. I thought

you guys were to hear that long

episode about Laura's marriage settlement and all these really technical details about the money

and who it should go to and who's going to inherit what and who's been cut out of the will and who's

still in the will and all of that stuff. I thought you were going to listen to that and be like,

whoa, I'm out of here. That was really boring. What does this have to do with anything? But no,

I am getting the most amazing emails from you guys with thoughts about what the marriage settlement

means in terms of all the other stuff that we've been talking about, about Laura and Sir Percival

and Marion and

Walter and everybody and all the players and all the things that we have been talking about

and going on here, you guys jumped on that marriage settlement conversation and you have

thoughts. And a lot of you have the same thought, which is really cool. And we're going to

talk about that in the discussion portion of the episode. But I just which is really cool, and we're going to talk about that in the

discussion portion of the episode. But I just wanted to tell you, you guys are awesome. I mean, yes,

it's a testament to Wilkie Collins and the book that he's writing, that he can insert this

long chapter about somebody's inheritance information, and it can make us feel like now the drama is even more heightened.

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