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. Mr. Fairley, what on earth is going on here.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome, welcome.

Welcome back to Storytime for grown-ups, where everything is going crazy,

and we're forced to listen to horrible men whine at us for an hour.

What are you even still doing here? Whatever. I'm so glad that you still are here. I hope

you're still with us after last week listening to Mr. Fairley. I was tempted to do this entire

intro in Mr. Fairley's voice, you know, like don't forget to subscribe. Tap the five stars. And I suppose if you have a couple of extra seconds,

leave a positive review. But I won't. That would be horrible. I will not subject you to Mr.

Fairley any longer. We're moving on. We're moving on to Mrs. Mickelson, who if you remember, is the housekeeper at Blackwater

Park. She's the woman that helped Marion when the dog was shot, and she's been kind of around in

the background. I think Count Fosco at one point was showing her his animals and birds, so she's

been around, but we don't really know anything about her at all,

and she is our next narrator. So that's going to be kind of interesting. She at least is at Blackwater

Park, where Laura and Marion are. But before we do that, we should talk about the Mr. Fairley

chapter and what it kind of told us and what it's even doing there because it really is doing

something and I think we can talk about that and we should. So please do subscribe. Please do tap the

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