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. Oh my goodness. What? She's not actually dead. Laura's alive. Hooray! Oh my gosh, we have so much to talk about.

Okay, welcome. Welcome back to Storytime for Grownups. I'm so glad to be here with you.

Thank you for indulging in my insane desire to want to make this book even more

suspenseful than it already is by leaving you with cliffhangers that Wilkie Collins didn't

even put in there. So I appreciate your willingness to come along with me on this truly wild ride. You know, it was so

hard for me not to give away that Laura wasn't really dead. Some of you guessed it and some of you

didn't and some of you hoped it was true, but you weren't sure. And you know, one of my favorite

things about doing this podcast, I have lots of favorite things, but one of them is talking

about the book with you as if I also haven't read any further than we have read together,

but then using the fact that I actually have read further to sort of point out interesting or

important things. But this one was hard to keep to myself, as all of these emails were coming

and saying, no, I can't believe she's dead. I'm so sad. And I had to keep it to myself. But that is the

price that I must pay for torturing you in this way. So now we know that she's alive. But of course,

we still don't know how she can possibly be alive when so many people testified

that she was dead and buried.

So we have a lot to find out, we have a lot to discuss.

I also was having such a good time imagining you all, tuning into the episode from last time

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