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, welcome back.

I just want to say thank you to those of you who were there on Thursday in the drawing room for tea time.

I had a lovely time chatting with all of you, and we had a great discussion

about the book, and particularly about Sir Percival and Count Fosco, and what we think is actually

going on with those two and who the bad guy is going to turn out to be. It was a really

great conversation. I love getting to chat with you. So thank you to those of you who were

there. Thank you for supporting the show in that way. And it's so much fun. And of course, if you weren't there,

if you missed it, if you'd like to join next time, I will announce the next date of the next tea

time soon. It's going to be probably near the end of March in the evening on a weekday,

but I haven't scheduled

it yet, but I will, and I will announce it here. And if you're interested in becoming a member,

either to join the T-Times, or just to join the drawing room, which is our online community,

it's a kind of place where we can chat, we can type to each other about the book and about

books generally and just ourselves.

It's a community and it's really growing and it's lovely to see. So if you'd like to be a part of that,

you can just scroll down into the description of this episode and you'll find a link to the membership

options and you can just kind of look at it and see if you'd like to sign up.

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