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Good evening and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

I'm Elizabeth, your host.

It is a pleasure to be here with you tonight.

This evening, we are returning to Villett.

But before we do that,

let's take a moment to get comfortable and ready to relax.

Take a nice big stretch

releasing any physical tension in your body

and allowing yourself to feel heavy.

Today is behind you and you deserve a good night's rest.

Take a deep breath in, collecting any worries or concerns, and now exhale, letting them all go. Before I recap our last episode, let's just do that one more time.

Inhale and exhale.

Wonderful.

Weeks passed without a word from Dr. John,

and Lucy began to feel hopeless once again, waiting each day around the post hour for nothing to come.

She had taken to re-reading old letters to fill her time, and was doing so one night,

when Geneva Fanchore entered the dormitory, complaining about having spent the evening with her uncle

the Bason Pierre.

She mentioned him staying in a big hotel with his daughter and that while he had a French name now, he was English enough.

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