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. Okay, more pieces of the puzzle are starting to slot into place, and we heard from my favorite Count Fosco. So we have lots to talk about today and of course more chapters to read,

but a couple of very quick housekeeping things before we move into all of that. The first is that

I have scheduled the April tea time for our drawing room online community. So if you're not

sure what I mean by that, we have an online community.

It's called the drawing room, which is short for Withdrawing Room, which is the room in an old

Victorian house where the house guests and their hosts would withdraw after dinner to this room,

the drawing room, where they would chat and play music and talk about books and play games and talk

about life. And so that's what we do in our drawing room. It is basically a kind of chat room

where people type to each other about the books that we're reading, the books that we've read

in the past, and also just generally about life. It's become a really lovely community, and I really like stopping in from time to time and

seeing what's going on, but also I let you guys just chat, because you guys are having

such fantastic conversations with each other, and I don't want to intervene.

But I do come from time to time and say hello, and it's a lovely place to be. And once a month we have these

tea times, which are basically voice chats where I am there and I am chatting with you. So you

get to chat with me and you get to also chat with each other. We talk about the book, but also we

talk about literature more generally, life, I take questions.

If you just have burning questions for me, this is a time to ask them.

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