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 so sad. I'm so glad that we can all be together in our grief right now. So gather together, you guys. This is sad stuff. But we're not done yet.

There's a lot of book left, and a lot is going to happen between now and the end of the book.

So we have tons to talk about and lots to figure out. And you guys have been writing to me

such amazing letters.

You guys have theories and thoughts and all kinds of things that I wish I could share

with you right now but I don't want to because I don't want to accidentally give any spoilers

or to confirm or deny whether you're right or wrong.

So I'm not going to do any of that.

But I am going to talk about

where we are now. I have one letter. It's a bit of a long letter, but I think it's a really

useful one for figuring out kind of where we stand, what the lay of the land is. So I'm going to do

that and I am going to talk about where we are right now and then we'll get back into it and see what happens next,

right? What's going to happen now that Laura is dead? Normally with a big reveal like that,

I would read lots and lots of letters, right? That's what I've been doing with all these

cliffhangers. I've been trying to show you how everyone's reacting so that you can all feel like you're

reacting together and that this is a community

because it really is. It's just that I get the benefit of all your reactions. So I like to try

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