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. Thank you for being here with me. Thank you for taking this time, whatever you're doing, wherever you are, whether it's actually Thursday or some other day in the future from now.

Thank you for taking this time to be with Storytime for Grownups and to listen to this podcast

and this story, this book together with all of us out there in Storytime for Grownups Land.

Thanks for being here.

I'm so happy and excited to be here with you.

And speaking of being together, I did want to

remind you about the tea time that is coming up. It is next Tuesday or this coming Tuesday,

which is April 29th. It's at 8 p.m. Eastern. And that is a way, another way for us to be together.

It's a way for us to actually really get to be

together in the sense that we talk to each other, which we don't really get to do on the show. You get

to hear me talk and I get to interact with all of you via your emails and of course you get to

a very small fraction of the emails that I get because I read them here on the show. But

this is a way for us to actually talk to each other in real time.

Tea Time is our monthly voice chat that we have over in our online community,

which is called the drawing room, which is sort for with drawing room,

because it's where we withdraw after the show.

The show is the main room of our lovely Victorian manor house,

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