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. Hello, I'm back. Oh my gosh. I missed you guys so much. I know that episodes kept coming out and I was still

talking to you, so I hope that you felt like I was still there with you in some way. But I wasn't there. I recorded all of those weeks ago, and so I really have missed

talking to you and talking about this book. I've missed this book. I've missed you.

Thank you for emailing me. Many of you have been emailing me even when I was gone, and I

appreciate that. It was like having a little line, a little lifeline back

to you guys and to the show. And I really appreciated that and I've been answering those emails now that

I'm back. So I hope you're getting my responses. And so I'm just thrilled. I'm thrilled to be back

with you again. So much happened while I was gone. I didn't plan it that way. I wish that it had been a different time

that I could have gone away because when I left, Laura was still at Limeridge with Marion,

and now she's married. They've moved to Blackwater Park. We've introduced Count Fosco and

Madam Fosco. So much has happened and I wasn't there. But I was there because I did read it

and we did talk about it together and I've gotten all your emails.

So I'm here, I'm caught up, I hope you are too, and I'm just thrilled that you're here.

I want to talk about a couple of things before we go into the recap and the question for

today because there were a few comments that I got over the time that I was gone that I didn't

address in my comments because I didn't

anticipate them. Really just like two or three things. I'm going to talk about those very,

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