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, welcome back. Oh my gosh, we have so much to talk about today. Wasn't that a crazy chapter

yesterday? I thought so. And there's way more crazy to come. But there's a lot that we're going to talk about but before we do

i just have to tell you about something that is happening if you were with us for jane air if you've

gone back and you've listened you may remember that there came a point where i started to notice that the

weather where i was the real weather was mimicking the weather in Jane Eyre. We started Jane Eyre

when we were doing it in real time. We started it just like we started this book in January. And the book

begins in wintertime. And as the book goes along, spring blooms and summer comes. and it just coincidentally happened that as we were

reading the book, the seasons that were changing in real life were the same as the seasons

that were changing in the book, and it was so interesting and amazing really because we were

living along with the book in that way. Well, at the end of the

chapter that we read last time of the woman in white, you may remember that a wind kicked up,

a kind of moaning wind that was sort of strange and eerie and sinister and it prompted Count

Fosco to say that, yes, a change is coming tomorrow.

Well, I kid you not, the night that that episode came out, that it all, that you guys got

that episode in your podcast player, here where I am, a wind kicked up like, this is a wind like

I've never seen before.

It was loud and it was blowing crazy things all over the place.

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