story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3
Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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"summary": "Pooter and his wife Carrie have just moved into a modest six-roomed house backing onto the railway; the landlord took £2 off the rent for the noise, and friends are made to use the side door.",
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"predicament": "A couple settling into a modest new home take pride in its small comforts and talk themselves past its obvious shortcomings."
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"summary": "Pooter describes his contented evenings pottering about the house, promises an ironmonger his custom, and notes that his old friend Gowing dropped in only to complain of the smell of paint and leave.",
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"predicament": "A contented householder tells his old friends to drop in whenever they like, and one of them only comes to complain."
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"summary": "Pooter chooses a butcher while Carrie, without consulting him, chooses another, so two shoulders of mutton arrive; Cummings and Gowing both trip over the boot-scraper and Pooter makes a pun about it.",
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"predicament": "A husband and wife each arrange the household's buying without consulting the other, and both orders turn up at the door."
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"summary": "Pooter sends bad eggs back to the butterman and tells him not to call again; the butterman comes back drunk, abuses him at the door as a mere City clerk, and Pooter manages only a feeble retort.",
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"predicament": "A respectable man who returns a tradesman's bad goods is insulted at his own door as someone not worth serving."
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"summary": "The butterman apologises with a pound of butter and is forgiven; Pooter tries to show off his front door to the curate, but it will not open and the curate tears his trousers on the scraper at the side door; the curate asks him to take the collection plate round, which Pooter takes as a great compliment.",
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"predicament": "A man who means to impress an important visitor with his front entrance cannot get it open and must take him round the side."
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"summary": "The butcher Pooter did not engage abuses him in front of the neighbours and threatens to sue over the scraper; Pooter blames Carrie; a decorator who cannot match the stair paint talks him into repainting the whole staircase.",
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"predicament": "A tradesman whose custom was refused abuses a householder in front of the neighbours, and another talks him into a costlier job."
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"summary": "Pooter rebukes three late junior clerks, and Pitt, seventeen and six weeks in the firm, tells him to keep his hair on and that after twenty years he looks it; next morning a quarrel with the grocer's boy makes Pooter miss his bus.",
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"predicament": "A long-serving senior rebukes younger colleagues for lateness and is answered with open cheek by the newest of them."
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"summary": "Pooter is late for the first time in his career on the one morning the principal checks, the others having been tipped off; a senior clerk saves him, Pitt jeers audibly at late head clerks, and Pooter's silent look only makes the juniors laugh; the ironmonger has holed the gas-pipe.",
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"predicament": "A punctual senior is caught late on the one morning the employer checks, and the younger colleagues he scolded mock him openly."
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"summary": "Gowing gives Pooter a strong cigar that makes him ill, which he hides; when Gowing complains of dry rot Pooter tells him he is talking dry rot himself, and laughs at his own joke half the night.",
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"predicament": "A man makes a small joke at an old friend's expense and is so delighted with it that he laughs half the night."
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"summary": "Pooter calls Carrie from her housework to hear a pun about 'boarders' and she tells him it is not worth interrupting her for; Gowing finds fault with the banisters; on Sunday Cummings and Gowing bring along a friend, Stillbrook, for a walk ending at a public house.",
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"predicament": "A husband calls his busy wife away to hear a pun and she tells him plainly it was not worth her time."
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"summary": "At the inn gate Pooter honestly gives his home district and is refused as not a bona-fide traveller, while his friends lie and are admitted; they leave him waiting outside for nearly an hour, and he walks home in silence and says nothing to Carrie.",
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"predicament": "A man's friends lie their way in where he has been turned away, and leave him waiting outside for an hour."
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"summary": "Pooter drafts and tears up letters of reproach, then receives a sharp letter from Cummings demanding an explanation of Pooter's conduct; his carefully worded reply amounts to an apology, and his friends take it as one.",
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"predicament": "A man slighted by his old friends ends up apologising to them himself, while telling himself he has generously forgiven them."
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"summary": "Declining Cummings' offer of his cousin's whisky, Pooter claims his cellar is full, at which moment the servant brings in a cheap bottle from the grocer wrapped in newspaper and offers to fetch sherry at one-and-three.",
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"predicament": "A man who claims a well-stocked cellar to refuse an old friend's offer is exposed when a servant brings in cheap drink."
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"summary": "Cummings brings his wine-merchant friend Merton, who agrees the Pooters are no swells; Pooter declares they avoid Society because they do not care for it, and Merton flatters him into ordering a dozen whisky and promises free theatre passes anywhere in London.",
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"predicament": "A modest householder who claims to scorn fashionable society is flattered by a new acquaintance into buying drink on promised favours."
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"summary": "Carrie wants to treat her old school friend and her husband, the Jameses, to the theatre, so Pooter asks Merton for passes; Merton sends seats for a minor theatre along with his bill, and Mr James insists on paying the bus fares.",
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"predicament": "A man sets out to treat his wife's old friends to an evening out, relying on free tickets promised by a new acquaintance."
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"summary": "At the theatre the passes are refused as out of date; while Pooter argues with the manager, James quietly pays for a private box for all four.",
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"predicament": "A host finds his free tickets refused at the door in front of his guests, and one guest quietly pays for better seats."
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"summary": "Pooter's clip-on tie falls into the pit and is trodden on, James remarks that his beard hides its absence, and Pooter spends the play with his chin down; next day he writes Merton a cutting letter and misspells 'appreciate' in it.",
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"predicament": "A host humiliated in front of his guests writes a cutting complaint to the acquaintance responsible, and misspells the very word that mattered."
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"summary": "Carrie proposes making it up to the Jameses with a card evening; Pooter takes up enamel paint and paints flower-pots, the servant's furniture, the coal-scuttle and at last the bath red, dismissing the servant's and Carrie's objections.",
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"predicament": "A husband seized by a home-improvement craze redecorates without asking his wife, and dismisses everyone else's opinion as bad taste."
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Cummings drops in and sneers at Pooter's joke about being the dummy at whist; when Gowing arrives Pooter makes a pun on 'Gowing always coming and Cummings always going', and he and Carrie laugh until his chair breaks.",
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"predicament": "A host makes a pun on his two old friends' names and laughs at it until the chair gives way beneath him."
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"summary": "Neither friend laughs; both take offence at a pun on their names and leave. At the office the cheeky junior Pitt apologises humbly, and an hour later Pooter is hit in the face by a ball of paper thrown by one of the clerks, who all look busy.",
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"predicament": "A senior's threat to report a cheeky junior brings a humble apology, and an hour later a missile from the juniors' desks."
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"summary": "Taking a very hot bath for a cold, Pooter sees his hand turn red and believes he is bleeding to death, until he realises the red enamel on the bath has dissolved; he resolves to have it repainted without telling Carrie.",
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"predicament": "A man whose home improvement has gone ridiculously wrong decides to hide it from his wife and have it quietly put right."
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"summary": "The Pooters are astounded and thrilled by an invitation to the Lord Mayor's reception; they share a tender moment and a polka, the servant walks in on it, and Pooter decides to ask his principal how to reply.",
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"predicament": "A modest couple receive an invitation far above their usual station and are overjoyed, unsure even how to answer it."
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"summary": "Mr Perkupp tells Pooter he put his name forward himself, which deflates him; a vulgar head clerk says he was asked too and may not bother; Carrie's mother returns the invitation stained with port; the tailor takes his pressed suit away because no one could pay a shilling.",
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"predicament": "A man proud of a grand invitation learns his employer arranged it, and that a colleague he looks down on was asked too."
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"summary": "On the night the house is in uproar; answering the back door in full dress, Pooter has cabbages pushed at him by the greengrocer's boy, boxes the boy's ears, slips on the cabbage and ends up bleeding, smeared with coal and torn at the knee.",
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"predicament": "A man dressed for the grandest evening of his life loses his temper with a delivery boy and ends up bruised and torn."
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"summary": "Carrie looks lovely in a borrowed fan and lace; at the Mansion House Pooter speaks briefly to the Lord Mayor and is dismayed that he has never heard of Mr Perkupp, while Carrie keeps saying what a pity it is they know nobody.",
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"predicament": "A couple at a grand reception above their station find that nobody there knows them, or the man who got them invited."
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"summary": "Carrie clings to him and people laugh; at supper Pooter is slapped on the back by his own ironmonger, Farmerson, who is breezily familiar and turns out to be an old friend of one of the sheriffs.",
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"predicament": "At a grand reception a man is greeted with loud familiarity by a tradesman he employs, who turns out better connected than him."
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"summary": "Farmerson introduces him to the sheriff without even a 'Mister', and Pooter is honoured to drink a glass with him; Carrie, left standing alone, is sarcastic, and he takes her off to dance.",
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"predicament": "A man flattered to be introduced to a dignitary leaves his wife standing alone in the crowd, and she lets him know it."
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"summary": "Waltzing in new boots, Pooter slips and brings Carrie down with him to general laughter; Farmerson jokes that they are too old for capers and plies him with drink, and cadges a lift home in their cab.",
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"predicament": "A man showing off his dancing at a grand event falls flat with his wife, and a tradesman he employs makes fun of him."
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"summary": "Pooter wakes ill after the ball and blames the lobster mayonnaise; Carrie answers him sharply, says champagne never did agree with him, walks out mid-sentence and goes to bed without saying good-night.",
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"predicament": "A husband suffering after a grand evening finds his wife coldly silent with him, and cannot see what he has done wrong."
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"summary": "The local paper's list of ball guests leaves the Pooters out but names Farmerson; Pooter writes to complain. When he asks Carrie to explain her conduct, she demands an explanation of his, hints he was drunk, and sneers at his new friend the ironmonger.",
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"predicament": "A husband who expects an apology from his wife is instead called to account for his drinking and fawning at a grand event."
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"summary": "Carrie lists his sins: he let the vulgar ironmonger snub him, drank with him, gave him a lift and asked him in; Gowing then bursts in unannounced dressed as the Lord Mayor, and Pooter coldly rebukes him for the joke.",
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"predicament": "A husband is told by his wife how he let a vulgar tradesman snub him in public and then fawned on him all evening."
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"summary": "Gowing finds his walking-stick enamelled black, says it was his late uncle's and calls Pooter a bigger fool than he looks; the newspaper first misprints the Pooters' name and then mocks them as 'Pewter' for writing in to be listed; Carrie is away and Gowing stays offended.",
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"predicament": "A man who improved an old friend's belonging without asking is told it was a treasured keepsake and called a fool."
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"summary": "Pooter buys Gowing a silver-mounted stick as a peace offering, meaning to understate its price to Carrie; Gowing replies he was never offended and the old stick cost a shilling. Pooter's 'frayed' pun is laughed at by the bus-driver and the office but not by the shirtmaker; evening games resume, Gowing overstepping good taste.",
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"predicament": "A man buys an offended old friend a costly peace offering, then learns the friend never cared and the loss was trifling."
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"summary": "A pleasant evening of songs at the Cummingses', where Pooter objects to one verse of Stillbrook's comic song; then the shirtmaker charges more for mending the shirts than they cost new and answers Pooter's complaint with insolence.",
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"predicament": "A tradesman charges more to mend something than it cost new, and meets the customer's complaint with open insolence."
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"summary": "Pooter impulsively invites Franching, a man of some style, home to supper; Franching insists on a cab, nobody answers the front door, Pooter climbs in through the kitchen window, and Carrie reminds him it is the servant's day off and there is no food, so he runs out for chops.",
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"predicament": "A man impulsively invites a grander acquaintance home, and finds the door locked, no help in the house and nothing to eat."
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"summary": "The Pooters keep quarrelling at meals; Carrie jibes at his late father's money troubles and ends in tears. His principal orders him to take his holiday early; he dines out with Franching to avoid home, leaves Carrie a silver bangle, and bites back an argument about her holiday dress.",
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"predicament": "A husband and wife keep flaring into quarrels over nothing, and he avoids home for an evening and brings back a peace offering."
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"summary": "Carrie tells him his 'Good old' is vulgar and decides their holiday herself; at the office Pitt calls 'Hornpipe' at his loose trousers, so Pooter orders new ones and buys the coloured shirt and tan boots the smart clerks wear.",
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"predicament": "After a younger colleague jeers at his clothes, a man buys the fashionable things the smarter young men at work are wearing."
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"summary": "Carrie buys an absurdly long parasol because Mrs James has a longer one, and Pooter buys a straw sun-helmet and other holiday finery; then the landlady writes that she has let the whole house to another party.",
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"predicament": "A couple spend on holiday finery to keep up with a fashionable friend, and then the lodgings they booked are given to others."
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"summary": "The Pooters' twenty-year-old son Willie turns up unannounced from his bank post in the north, announces he now goes by his second name, Lupin, sneers 'Good old Bill' at the respected uncle he was named after, and helps himself to more port.",
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"predicament": "A grown son arrives home unannounced, drops the name he was christened with, and sneers at the respectable relative it honoured."
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"summary": "Carrie scolds her husband's 'Good old' but not her son's; Lupin says no clerk at the bank is a gentleman and the manager is a cad, lies in bed until nearly three on the holiday, then announces he has resigned.",
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"predicament": "A grown son lies in bed past dinner, calls his employer a cad, and announces he has thrown up his post."
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"summary": "Pooter orders Lupin to write withdrawing his resignation; Lupin laughs that he was sacked, and it emerges he was dismissed for lateness and lack of interest. Pooter dreams of getting him into his own firm, and they go to the seaside, where Lupin is fastidious about the lodgings.",
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"predicament": "A father who orders his son to withdraw a resignation learns the son was in fact dismissed for idleness."
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"summary": "Lupin slips off to a music-hall turn and Carrie defends him; meeting Gowing on the pier, Pooter changes the subject when asked whether Lupin has left the bank; Lupin refuses to walk the parade with his father in his straw helmet.",
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"predicament": "A father dodges an old friend's awkward question about his son's dismissal, and the son is ashamed to be seen with him."
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"summary": "Lupin mocks his parents' boat trip and goes off to play billiards with Gowing despite his father's disapproval; Carrie tells Pooter to stop treating Lupin as a child, so Pooter offers him a cigar, which Lupin dismisses as twopenny and replaces with a far stronger one.",
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"predicament": "A father's disapproval of his grown son's habits is overruled by his wife, and his peace offering is laughed at."
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"summary": "At the Cummingses' Gowing organises a silly lap-sitting game, then stands up so that everyone falls; Carrie hits her head on the fender and the party misses the last train, costing Pooter seven-and-six for a carriage.",
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"predicament": "An old friend's boisterous prank at a party sends everyone tumbling, hurts the wife, and costs the husband an expensive ride home."
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"summary": "Home again, firm after firm writes that it has no vacancy for Lupin; Pooter buys plaster stags' heads to give the hall style; Mrs James comes to stay and talks dress with Carrie for hours; the new neighbours' friends are rowdy.",
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"predicament": "A father writes to firm after firm seeking a place for his dismissed grown son, and every one of them has nothing."
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"summary": "The neighbours' visitors sing a mocking song at Pooter and throw a cracker at his hat; Mrs James fills Carrie's head with fashion; at a supper where Pooter is to refuse the salmon so it goes round, Lupin sneers at the card game and leaves the table.",
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"predicament": "A respectable householder is mocked by the rowdy visitors next door, who sing at him and throw a cracker at his hat."
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"summary": "Lupin plays a joke on Gowing that Pooter enjoys, but everyone laughs all evening at something unexplained, which turns out to be an antimacassar hanging from Pooter's coat-tails; Carrie appears in a smock-dress on Mrs James's advice; weeks later Pooter finds pages torn from his diary.",
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"predicament": "A man laughs along with a roomful of guests all evening, not knowing that the joke is something hanging from his own coat."
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"summary": "Carrie says the lost diary pages are his own fault; his smart retort is spoiled when he knocks over and smashes a wedding-present vase. The servant blames the charwoman, who denies touching the book; meanwhile Mr Perkupp writes that he may have a place for Lupin.",
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"predicament": "A man demands to know who destroyed his cherished private record, and his cutting retort is spoiled when he smashes a treasured gift."
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"summary": "The charwoman blames the sweep; the sweep, too polite to rebuke, blames the servant, who rows with him on the soot-covered front steps; Lupin, given a latch-key, is never home.",
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"predicament": "A householder's inquiry into a small household loss sets the servants and a tradesman blaming each other in a row on his doorstep."
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},
|
||||
{
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"chunk": 49,
|
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"story": 6,
|
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"summary": "Lupin crashes in after midnight, ignores his parents and dances noisily in his room; Mr Perkupp secures him an appointment, and Pooter breaks the news over a special bottle of port, to which Lupin says only 'Good biz!'",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father whose employer has found his idle son a post breaks the news over good wine, and the son barely acknowledges it."
|
||||
}
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||||
]
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[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 50,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin announces he is engaged to Daisy Mutlar without consulting his parents; Carrie is ecstatic and Pooter doubtful. Through Mr Perkupp Lupin takes a clerkship with a firm of stockbrokers and privately sneers at it, and Pooter tells him beggars cannot be choosers.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A grown son announces an engagement without consulting his parents, and sneers at the post his father's employer found him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 51,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "At the Cummingses' fireworks Pooter burns his fingers on Gowing's advice, then taps the host's stalled seven-shilling wheel off its stake and is stormed at by everyone; he and Carrie argue over whether she or the girl's mother should call first.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest who tries to help his host's prized display along knocks it over, and the whole party turns on him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 52,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin brings home Daisy's brother, a gawky amateur comedian, who does imitations for an hour past the family's bedtime, ignores every hint to leave, and then takes Lupin out after midnight.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son's new friend, brought home to amuse his parents, outstays his welcome by hours and then leads the son out at midnight."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 53,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin joins amateur theatricals against his father's wishes. Pooter comes home to find the drunken charwoman and the servant screaming about the diary, and Lupin swearing in front of his mother that the diary is worthless; Pooter announces he is master of the house.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father comes home to a shouting match between the servants and his son swearing before his mother, and insists he is master here."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 54,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter sends the servants off while Lupin roars with laughter; meeting Daisy after church, Pooter's heart sinks at a big young woman some eight years older than his son. Carrie plans a party and suggests inviting Mr Perkupp, though Pooter fears they are not grand enough for him.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father meets the woman his young son means to marry and is dismayed to find her much older than the boy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 55,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie bakes all day for the party; Mr Perkupp may look in; Gowing asks whether to dress. Lupin, anxious to impress Daisy, criticises every arrangement and says old Cummings will look like a greengrocer hired to wait.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son anxious to impress his intended finds fault with his parents' party and sneers at their old friends as common."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 56,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter loses his temper, calls Daisy an older woman who has inveigled Lupin and her brother a loafer; Lupin vows never to darken the door again and storms out, and is back for supper and cards.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father who loses his temper over his son's engagement is told the son will leave forever, and he is back by supper."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
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||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 57,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Preparing their first important party, the Pooters hope Mr Perkupp might come; Lupin insists on a hired waiter and six bottles of champagne paid from a lucky City deal, which worries his father, and mocks Pooter's ordinary boots, while his new dress trousers prove too short.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple preparing their first important party hope the husband's employer might come, while their son pushes them into extravagance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 58,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing greets Pooter at the door by jeering at his short trousers and calls him 'Juggins'; the guests arrive, Daisy in a low-cut crimson dress, Lupin's theatrical club friends pose and crack a table, and Daisy sings four songs badly at Lupin's insistence.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A host greeted at his own door by an old friend's jeer about his clothes watches his party taken over by his son's crowd."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 59,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing and Cummings gorge themselves and gulp the champagne; Lupin carries off the bottle Pooter was saving; while everyone shrieks at a clownish pantomime by Lupin and Frank, Pooter turns to find Mr Perkupp in the doorway, plainly not amused.",
|
||||
"predicament": "The employer arrives unannounced at a man's party in the middle of noisy horseplay, and is plainly not amused by it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 60,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "The supper table is stripped bare and even the soda-water is gone; Mr Perkupp graciously declines port, says he is pleased to see them at home, leaves after minutes and tells Pooter to come in late tomorrow; Pooter thinks the party a failure, Carrie says it was a success, and they dance.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man has nothing left to offer his employer at his own party, and the employer kindly leaves after a few minutes."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
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||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 61,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter wakes parched after dreaming the party was a failure; Carrie says champagne never agrees with him, and he insists he drank only port; he greets Lupin's hangover with a 'parachute' pun and they both roar.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who drank too much at his own party insists to his wife he barely touched it, then cheers himself with a pun."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 62,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing praises the party, then shouts in front of the servant that the blancmange is Wednesday's leftovers; the Pooters decline a slight acquaintance's wedding because it would mean a present, calling it a distaste for Society, and Lupin makes a cynical speech about weddings.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple decline a slight acquaintance's invitation, telling themselves they dislike society when they mainly dislike buying a present."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 63,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The leftover blancmange keeps reappearing, disguised with jam; Lupin and Frank burst in on Pooter's dominoes and chant a club ritual at his ignorance of their game; Lupin calls the blancmange 'second-hand goods'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father is ridiculed for his ignorance by his son and his son's friend, using a private ritual of their own set."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 64,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The Pooters reassure each other that early marriages can be happy and Pooter philosophises about the joys of early hardship; Lupin then enters theatrically, drinks neat whisky and forbids them ever to mention Daisy's name again.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Parents who had reconciled themselves to their son's imprudent engagement learn from his melodramatic outburst that it has been broken off."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 65,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter refuses Lupin brandy and Lupin walks out, Carrie taking his part; next evening Lupin brings Burwin-Fosselton, an amateur actor who imitates Henry Irving all evening and insists on being called by his full double name.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son brings home a self-important friend who monopolises the evening and corrects his host on how to address him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 66,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Fosselton sprawls through supper, kicks Carrie and knocks over the fire-irons, then announces he will come back tomorrow in make-up; Gowing and Cummings invite themselves too, and next evening Gowing brings a silent, vulgar stranger, Padge, without asking or apologising.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Guests invite themselves back to a man's home, and an old friend brings along a stranger without asking or apologising."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 67,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The Irving make-up astonishes everyone; Padge takes the best armchair and smokes; Fosselton patronises Carrie's joke and corrects Pooter on his name again, then digs a nail into Gowing's neck, at which Padge roars; Fosselton promises another make-up tomorrow.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A host finds his home taken over by a young guest's performances and a stranger who sits in the best chair laughing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 68,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing stays away with a sore neck, but Padge comes again alone and takes the best chair; Carrie smooths things over; Cummings says the imitation is better than the original and Pooter disagrees.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A stranger an old friend brought uninvited returns alone, takes the best chair again, and the host cannot bring himself to object."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 69,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Fosselton tells Pooter to talk about what he understands, Carrie rescues the evening with a comic turn, and Pooter writes a firm letter refusing further argument; Daisy cuts him in the street; the laundress insists she was sent only an odd sock.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A young guest tells his older host, in his own home, to confine himself to talking about what he understands."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 70,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing makes a joke about the odd sock that sets the laundress giggling and Carrie roaring, and Pooter thinks he is losing his sense of humour; Gowing coolly says he brought Padge to repay a dinner; Lupin shouts at Gowing for asking after Daisy.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend coolly admits using a man's home to repay a stranger's hospitality, after making the man's wife laugh at him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 71,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "After church a grand lady of the parish stops to speak to Pooter, but his hat blows into the muddy road and by the time he retrieves it she has walked on with her smart friends; that evening an insolent letter arrives from Burwin-Fosselton.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man flattered that a lady of high standing stops to speak to him loses the moment chasing his hat through the mud."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 72,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Fosselton's letter tells Pooter to take his defeat gracefully, sets his own art above Pooter's 'life among ledgers', and announces he will go on the stage and reach the top.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A young man who scorns a respectable older man's steady working life writes to tell him their lives are worlds apart."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 73,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The letter ends by telling Pooter he knows nothing of acting; Pooter shows it to Lupin as proof of his friend's character, and Lupin says he saw it before it was sent, agrees with it, and thinks his father should apologise.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father shows his son an insolent letter from the son's friend, and the son replies that the father should apologise."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 74,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "With Lupin's engagement broken off, the house is gloomy; Pooter reads Carrie extracts from his diary and she walks out, later admitting she was not listening because of Lupin's shirts; Pooter complains that everything is Lupin, and notes his friends rarely call now.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband reads his wife his cherished writing and finds she was not listening, because everything in the house now turns on the son."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 75,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin is impossible about Daisy; when Pooter says the diary might one day be published, Carrie and Lupin burst out laughing, Carrie apologising and Lupin jeering it might fetch a price from a butterman as wrapping paper.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who hopes his private writings might one day be published is laughed at by his wife and his son."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 76,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin refuses to come to the family Christmas with a gloomy speech about snivelling relations; in a crowded card shop Pooter remarks on customers' carelessness and at once knocks over a pile of expensive boxed cards, and under the manager's pointed look feels obliged to buy some.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A customer who has just remarked on others' carelessness knocks over a costly display, and feels obliged to buy the damaged goods."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 77,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter finds a vulgar card among those he bought; Carrie remarks that going into Society means sending two dozen cards; Lupin advises his father to alter the pencilled prices on the backs so people think he paid five times as much.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son advises his father to alter the prices on cheap gifts so that the recipients think he paid five times as much."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 78,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter tells a despondent Lupin he is well rid of Daisy, and Lupin retorts she is worth all his father's friends including 'that inflated sloping-head' Perkupp; Pooter leaves with dignity and trips on the mat; two days later Lupin announces the engagement is on again.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father who runs down his son's former sweetheart hears the son call his revered employer an inflated fool."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 79,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "An insulting anonymous Christmas card sets Pooter suspecting all his friends, the junior Pitt and the charwoman; Lupin laughs at it. At Christmas dinner with Carrie's mother Pooter proposes her health with a speech urging everyone to kiss and make up.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man receives an anonymous insult and finds himself suspecting every friend, colleague and servant he has."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 80,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "The old clergyman takes Pooter's speech as licence to kiss the ladies, and a young stranger, Moss, jumps up with mistletoe and kisses Carrie; Carrie brushes off Pooter's unease, saying he is only a boy, and a nice one.",
|
||||
"predicament": "At a family gathering a forward young stranger kisses a man's wife under cover of a joke, and she makes light of it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 81,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin asks his father to put off Gowing and Cummings because Daisy and Frank are coming; Carrie asks pointedly whether the old friends are not good enough for Daisy or Daisy not good enough for them, and Lupin gives way; Carrie plans to disguise the cut leg of mutton.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son asks his father to put off old friends so his intended can visit, and the mother asks who is not good enough."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 82,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin sneers at his father's friends' cheap clothes; at supper Daisy starts flicking bread, and a bread fight follows in which even Gowing and Cummings join; Gowing throws parsley in Pooter's face, and when he protests Frank turns out the gas.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A host's supper descends into horseplay led by his son's set, and his own old friends join in pelting him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 83,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "In the dark someone punches Pooter hard on the back of the head; he decides it was whoever sent the Christmas card, dreams it was Frank, and compares handwriting, until Carrie points out the card was addressed to Lupin, who says he often receives and sends such cards.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man struck in the dark at his supper suspects a young guest, then finds the insult he resented was never meant for him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 84,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter confides the punch to Gowing as an old friend, and Gowing laughs that he hit something but thought it was a brick wall; Lupin boasts that he took Daisy's stingy father down a peg.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man confides a grievance to an old friend, who laughs that he did it himself and took the man's head for a wall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 85,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Mr Mutlar senior writes that he must decide who is master of his own house and forbids Lupin to enter it again, with sarcastic praise of his modesty; Pooter keeps the letter from Carrie and Lupin.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father receives a letter from his son's prospective father-in-law banning the son from his house, and keeps it to himself."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 86,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Waiting for Lupin on New Year's Eve in a fog, Pooter and Carrie argue whether the new bottle is whisky or brandy and miss seeing the New Year in for the first time in their marriage; Lupin comes home at two, saying he got lost.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband and wife waiting up for their absent son quarrel over nothing and miss the moment they always kept together."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 87,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Summoned without warning by Mr Perkupp, Pooter waits twenty minutes fearing the worst, then is told that a senior clerk is retiring and that after nearly twenty-one years he is to have a special promotion and a considerable rise.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A long-serving man summoned by his employer fears the worst, and is told instead that his loyal years will be rewarded."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 88,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Perkupp hurries off before Pooter can thank him; Carrie at once plans a chimney-glass and Pooter a new costume for her. Next day, in suspense, Pooter goes to ask about it and Perkupp has half forgotten and puts him off.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man promised a reward at work waits in suspense, and when he finally goes to ask, the employer has half forgotten."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 89,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin urges a share tip on his father, who answers with a pun about 'par' and 'pa' and repeats it for his son's benefit; Lupin calls him 'Joe Miller'. Pooter learns he is to be a senior clerk, and at last raises Mr Mutlar's letter with Lupin.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father repeats his little joke so that his grown son will laugh, and the son answers him with a sneer."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 90,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin calls Mutlar a blithering idiot and says Daisy will wait ten years. Perkupp tells Pooter his salary will rise by £100, far beyond the usual £10; Pooter sends for champagne and announces to Lupin that twenty-one years' industry has been rewarded.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man given a large rise after long, loyal service celebrates at home and tells his son how steady industry is rewarded."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 91,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin toasts that, having paid no attention to his superiors' interests for a few weeks, he has made £200 in a day on a share tip from his employer; he then hires a pony-trap, tells his father he is out of date, and reckons his future income at £1,250 a year.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father's reward for long years of steady work is outshone the same evening by his son's windfall from speculation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 92,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin promises to follow only his employer's tips; Gowing, having made £10 on one, invites the Pooters and Cummingses round. Pooter rebukes the servant for shaking crumbs on the carpet and runny eggs; she retorts that he is always complaining and cries, and he escapes to his bus.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A master rebukes a servant for small carelessness, and she answers that he is always complaining and bursts into tears."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 93,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "A new chimney-glass is hung. Cummings appears after weeks away, having been seriously ill, and complains bitterly that no one came near him or asked after him, though it was in the cycling paper, and that illness shows who one's true friends are.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man is reproached by an old friend who was seriously ill and says none of his friends came near him or asked."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 94,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing slaps the invalid Cummings on the back and jeers that he looks it, then invites them all round; when the Pooters arrive at his lodgings nobody expects them, a man in shirt-sleeves shuts the door on them, and Pooter spoils his gloves on fresh paint.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Guests arrive at an old friend's home as invited, find nobody expecting them, and are left on the doorstep by a stranger."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 95,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "The man abuses Pooter for scratching his paint and says Gowing has gone away to Croydon for the weekend; the lame Cummings arrives too, hears it, and strikes the ground with his stick, calling Gowing a scoundrel.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend who invited people round has gone off to a better invitation without a word, leaving them abused on his doorstep."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 96,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter frets over £20 he invested on Lupin's advice, as Cummings has too; a fortnight on, Gowing has not explained himself, and when Cummings calls they agree Gowing has behaved like a cad.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two men left standing on an old friend's doorstep agree he has behaved like a cad, and wait to see if he will explain."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 97,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing breezes in, claims he posted a note cancelling the evening and puns about letters 'miscarrying'; Pooter's quip that he hopes Gowing will attend the next meeting sets everyone laughing. Lupin persuades Carrie to a Sunday drive in his trap, and Pooter comes along on the back seat.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend who stood people up breezes in with a flimsy excuse and a pun, and is forgiven by the evening's end."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 98,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
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"summary": "Lupin drives recklessly, abuses pedestrians and chaffs a cartload of roughs who follow them pelting orange-peel; next day Pooter confides his worries about Lupin to Mr Perkupp, who kindly says the boy will steady down and wishes the firm had room for him.",
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||||
"predicament": "A worried father confides his son's wild conduct to his employer, who kindly reassures him that the boy will steady down."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 99,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin gravely announces news that will 'distress' them: he has given up the trap, and Pooter, relieved, opens port; Gowing brings a pin-the-tail game. Lupin says Daisy has promised her father not to write; Frank Mutlar brings in a nervous, fat young swell, Murray Posh.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father braced for bad news is so relieved his son has given up an extravagance that he opens the good wine."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 100,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing tactlessly asks Posh about his family's cheap hats; Posh talks at length about hat-making and plainly knows Daisy well, and Frank jokes that Posh will cut Lupin out; Lupin scorns jealousy and says Daisy would wait twenty years for him.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son scorns any thought that a wealthy, dull rival could take his intended, sure she would wait twenty years for him."
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||||
}
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[
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||||
{
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||||
"chunk": 101,
|
||||
"story": 15,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter breaks a hand-mirror and Carrie foresees misfortune; Lupin, agitated, reports that the shares he advised have collapsed but that he sold his father's for £2, which Pooter takes for a profit until Lupin explains he has lost £18 of his £20, and Cummings and Gowing everything.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father who invested on his son's confident tip learns the shares have collapsed, and at first mistakes his loss for a profit."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 102,
|
||||
"story": 15,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin hints his employer has vanished; Gowing arrives cheerful, Lupin reveals he never had any money in the shares himself, and Gowing says he lost nothing because he persuaded Cummings to take his share.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father learns his son risked none of his own money on the tip he urged on everyone, and a friend offloaded his share."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 103,
|
||||
"story": 15,
|
||||
"summary": "When Cummings rings, Lupin and then Gowing climb out of the parlour window to avoid him, and Pooter is left to console him and send out for his new health spirit; next morning the paper reports that Lupin's employer has absconded.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son and an old friend escape through a window from a man ruined by their tip, leaving the father to face him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 104,
|
||||
"story": 15,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin shrugs at his firm's failure but is crushed by a letter saying Daisy is to marry Murray Posh; as he leaves he smiles at the consolation that, on his advice, Posh put £600 into the collapsed shares.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son who has lost his post and his intended on the same morning consoles himself that his rival lost money on his advice."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
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[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 105,
|
||||
"story": 16,
|
||||
"summary": "On Daisy's wedding day Lupin goes off for the day; Gowing says Lupin can make a fool of himself unaided and Carrie makes him apologise. Next morning a letter from Mr Perkupp asks Pooter to bring Lupin to the office, and Pooter begs his son to dress quietly.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father's long-held dream comes within reach when his employer asks him to bring his wayward son in to be seen."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 106,
|
||||
"story": 16,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin dresses soberly and calls it a 'respectable funereal junior-clerk make-up', smashes a new hat he finds is his rival's make, and after an hour with Perkupp is taken on; Pooter can only tell Perkupp he is a good man, and Perkupp replies that Pooter is, and they hope his son will follow his example.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father whose employer takes his son into the firm can only stammer his thanks, and is told he is the example to follow."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 107,
|
||||
"story": 16,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter nearly weeps on the bus while Lupin quarrels with a fat passenger; friends drink Lupin's health, and Pooter lies awake imagining travelling to work with his son and the boy helping about the house and garden.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father whose son has joined him at work lies awake imagining them sharing everything, from the daily journey to the garden."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
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[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 108,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "A pen Gowing recommended leaks, and when Pooter bangs it on his desk Mr Perkupp shouts at the noise, supposing it is Pitt; Pitt gleefully says aloud that it is Mr Pooter and has been all morning, and Lupin laughs behind his desk; the shop will not take the pen back.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A senior blamed by the employer for a noise is loudly named by a younger colleague, while his own son laughs nearby."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 109,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing brings an invitation to a Volunteer ball; Pooter serves him a sparkling wine given by Mr James, which Gowing mocks and which is indeed sour; at cards the Pooters lose five shillings between them and Gowing somehow claims to have lost too.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend mocks the gift wine his host serves him, and somehow comes out ahead at cards though nobody else won."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 110,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "The neighbours' boys throw bones over the fence and pull faces whenever the Pooters have guests; the servant spoils the sauce. For the ball Pooter has Carrie wear her Mansion House dress in case Mr Perkupp is there, and Lupin says he hears it is a 'bounders' ball'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple dress in their best for a function they think fashionable, hoping to meet the employer, while their son says it is common."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 111,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "Arriving an hour late to be fashionable after a long search for the hall, Pooter underpays the grumbling cabman, knows no one among the uniforms, and is glad to be greeted by Padge.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple arrive late to seem fashionable at a function far from home, find they know nobody, and welcome an acquaintance they dislike."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 112,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "In the empty supper-room Pooter helps Carrie, a new acquaintance, Mrs Lupkin, Padge and several civil strangers to champagne, pie and ices, thinking himself recognised from the City and that civility costs nothing.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest at a grand function generously helps everyone around him to food and wine, believing it is all provided free."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 113,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "The others go to dance; the waiter refuses Pooter's shilling tip and presents a bill for £3 0s 6d, the invitation not covering refreshments; Pooter turns out his pockets and is nine shillings short, and the manager takes his card.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who played the generous host at a function is handed the bill for everyone's supper and cannot quite pay it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 114,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "Deeply humiliated, Pooter hides the bill from Carrie so as not to spoil her evening; Mrs Lupkin presses them to come and stay with her at the seaside and they accept; in pouring rain they find a cab willing to take them only part of the way.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man humiliated by an unexpected bill hides it from his wife so as not to spoil her evening."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 115,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "With no money left for the fare, Pooter is abused by the cabman, who pulls his beard; a policeman says he saw nothing and people should not ride without money; they walk two miles home in the rain and Pooter drafts a letter to the paper. Mrs James decorates the mantelpiece with toy insects as the fashion.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man with no money for his fare is abused and manhandled, and the law standing by says he has only himself to blame."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 116,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "The next-door neighbour accuses Pooter of boring into his cistern and threatens a bill; Cummings, laid up again after a fall, is indignant when Lupin rushes out laughing and complains that once more nobody inquired after him; Carrie takes up manicure on Mrs James's advice.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend laid up again reproaches a man for never asking after him, while the man's son runs out laughing at his fall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 117,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter resents Mrs James's influence on Carrie; Mrs Lupkin's letter reveals her pressing invitation was to her own commercial hotel at half price, and Pooter declines with what Carrie calls satire; a suit he chose by gaslight arrives as loud mustard-and-green check, and Carrie giggles.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man discovers that a chance acquaintance's warm invitation to come and stay was really an offer to let him cheap rooms."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
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|
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[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 118,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "An old schoolfellow, Teddy Finsworth, hails Pooter in the street, boasts that his provincial post is grander than any in London, and presses the Pooters to Sunday dinner at his well-to-do uncle's; Carrie is reluctant but they accept and cancel their own joint.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man is hailed by an old schoolfellow who boasts of his own importance and presses him to dine with grander relations."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 119,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "They arrive hot and late and the collie muddies Carrie's new skirt; the uncle shows off pictures bought cheap that he has been told are valuable, and Pooter remarks that the face in a crayon portrait looks pinched, to learn it was drawn after death of the host's sister-in-law.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest in a grander house criticises a portrait to his host and learns that it shows the host's dead relative."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 120,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter then jokes about a jolly portrait, which is of the host's dead brother; he makes a pun on the name of a late guest, Mr Short, repeating it twice with a little laugh, and nobody sees it; Short proves coarse, and the hostess says he is 'privileged'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest makes a pun on a stranger's name, repeats it twice with a little laugh, and nobody at all sees the joke."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 121,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "Under the table one dog snaps at Pooter's boots and another licks all the blacking off them, which the hostess says it always does to visitors; port on beer makes him sleepy, his school reminiscences send everyone to sleep, and people giggle at his dull boots on the way home.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest in a grander house is harassed by the family's pets, and the hostess says they always do that to visitors."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 122,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter tells Lupin, Gowing, Cummings and Carrie about a vivid dream of burning ice; Lupin calls it rot, Gowing says nothing is duller than other people's dreams, Cummings agrees, Carrie says he tells her one every morning, and they all roar; he vows never to tell another.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who tells his family and old friends about a vivid dream is snubbed by every one of them at once."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 123,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "Franching invites the Pooters at a few hours' notice to fill two empty places at a dinner for a celebrated American writer; Pooter overrides Carrie's objections because Franching is rich and influential, economises on the telegram, and they arrive too early.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple invited at the last moment to fill empty places at a wealthier man's dinner accept, since they cannot afford to offend him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 124,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "The party is distinguished, with a hired waiter, flowers and champagne; Pooter knows nobody, tells his host he prefers having no lady to take in, then realises it was uncomplimentary; he sits by a deaf lady while Hardfur Huttle does all the talking.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A modest guest at a distinguished dinner knows nobody, makes a tactless remark to his host, and sits silent while a celebrity talks."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 125,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "Huttle dazzles the table with 'unorthodox' opinions, keeps the ladies from withdrawing, and declares that the 'happy medium' means miserable mediocrity and respectability means insipidness, then asks Pooter whether that is not so.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A brilliant guest at a grand dinner mocks respectable middle ways, then turns and asks the modest man beside him to agree."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 126,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter can only say he is not competent to offer an opinion; Huttle goes on to scorn the half-hearted man in a suburban villa 'with a soft beard and a made tie that hooks on', and Pooter, who wears one, keeps glancing at himself in the glass.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A modest guest hears a celebrated talker sneer at exactly his kind of man and his clothes, and has no answer."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 127,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "Huttle praises Franching's plain home with no hired waiter and no grocer's champagne, making his host wince, and sneers at milksops who play dominoes at home with their wives and at frivolous matrons who think a suburban dance is Society; Pooter leaves early for his train.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A celebrated guest's praise of the host's plain living exposes the host's pretences, while his scorn for homebodies lands on another guest."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 128,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "At home Carrie says Huttle is just like Lupin; Pooter lies awake reflecting that such ideas make or break men, that he himself is happy because he is not ambitious, and that Lupin, now at Perkupp's, seems content to follow his father's steps.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A contented man tells himself he is happy because he is not ambitious, and hopes his son will follow in his steps."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 129,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "While Pooter and Mr Perkupp were both away ill, the firm's most valued client came in angry, and Lupin received him and recommended a rival firm; Lupin is dismissed, and Pooter, dreading his first ever hard word from his master, is summoned; Perkupp says he, not a junior, will decide when the firm modernises.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A long-serving man learns his son has driven the firm's most valued client to a rival, and must face his employer about it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 130,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter asks whether Perkupp suspects him of countenancing his son, and Perkupp says he would as soon suspect himself; flustered, Pooter nearly calls him a 'grand old man'. Perkupp admits the firm cannot afford to lose the client and says Pooter can be of service.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A loyal man whose son has damaged the firm is assured of his employer's complete trust and asked to help repair it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 131,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Perkupp asks Pooter to write to the client as if on his own initiative, explaining the son was taken on only as an inexperienced favour, and hints he should not spare his son; he declines to see the letter, trusting Pooter, and gives him the day to write it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "The employer asks a loyal man to write privately to a lost client, disowning his own son's conduct as if unprompted."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 132,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin appears in a new hat he says was a present from an old friend-turned-rival, calls Perkupp an inflated fool, and insists he did no injury: the client was simply tired of a stagnant firm, and he recommended the new one as good business.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son who cost his father's employer its best client calls the employer a fool and insists he has done no harm."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 133,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "The hat was a gift from Murray Posh, Daisy's husband, with whom Lupin is now friends and goes off to lunch; Pooter spends the whole day on the letter to the client, finding Carrie's suggestions useless, and Perkupp again declines to read it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father spends all day on a letter to undo his son's damage, while the son goes off to dine with his former rival."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 134,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing, and then Carrie, side with Lupin, and Gowing drinks most of his own small bottle of Madeira. The client replies in a few lines that Pooter's son showed more intelligence in five minutes than the firm has in five years.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father's careful appeal on his employer's behalf is answered in a few curt lines saying his son showed more sense than the firm."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 135,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin receives a £25 commission from the rival firm; Cummings and Gowing take his part; Perkupp tells Pooter the matter is closed; then the rival firm engages Lupin at £200 a year, and Lupin tells his father to drop Perkupp's 'stagnant dummies' for the firm of the future.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A loyal man's son, hired by a rival firm at a handsome salary, urges his father to leave his stagnant employer too."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 136,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin whoops, jumps a chair and rumples his father's hair before going out to dine with the Poshes; Gowing and Cummings congratulate Pooter, saying the boy has more in his head than the three of them, and Carrie calls him a second Hardfur Huttle.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father whose son has prospered by defying everything he believes in is congratulated on the boy by his old friends."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 137,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "At the Jameses' the spoilt son Percy kicks Pooter's shins, slaps Carrie and smashes a guest's watch; when Pooter says that is not his idea of bringing up children, Mrs James retorts that his own son Lupin is no standard of perfection.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest kicked by his hosts' spoilt child objects, and the mother retorts that his own son is no model either."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 138,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter says he wishes he liked Mrs James better; Carrie replies that she has put up for years with his vulgar friend Gowing and his dull friend Cummings, and Mrs James has more intellect in her little finger than both; that evening Carrie is absorbed in a book on Spiritualism Mrs James sent.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who dislikes his wife's fashionable friend is told that she has put up with his vulgar, dull old friends for years."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 139,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Mrs James arrives and takes over, setting up table-turning; Pooter forbids it as he did years ago, and when she presses him to say how it differs from the telegraph, he declines to discuss it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband tries to forbid a fashionable craze his wife's friend has brought into the house, and is outargued in his own parlour."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 140,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Cummings joins the table, and Pooter's refusal simply leaves him ignored; he sits in the kitchen with Gowing, who jokes that it would be a good thing for Lupin if old Posh died, which horrifies Pooter half the night.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband who refuses to join his wife's new craze is simply left out, and spends the evening sitting apart."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 141,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter writes the laundress a letter he thinks satirical; mending a cornice above the séance, he thoughtlessly gives the floor two raps with his hammer, and Carrie reports a wonderful message; he promises to sit once to oblige her.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband who scorns his wife's new pastime thoughtlessly plays a trick on it, then agrees to join in to oblige her."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 142,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "At his first sitting the table spells part of an old aunt's name, which Pooter finds curious. The laundress refunds ninepence for spoiled handkerchiefs; Pooter says it is not enough, until Carrie recalls they cost sixpence, and he must give threepence back. Lupin goes to stay with the Poshes.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man demands compensation from a tradesman for spoiled goods, then learns they cost less than he was given and must refund the difference."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 143,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing joins the next séance and larks about as the table careers across the room; Pooter threatens to light the gas and suspects him of tricks; a spirit repeats 'WARN'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend clowns through a solemn evening his host's household cares about, and the host suspects him of cheating."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 144,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "The table spells 'SPOOF' and Pooter accuses Gowing, who puns that he is sorry he 'spook'; nobody laughs and he is sent to sit out. The table then spells 'NIPUL' (Lupin backwards) and says he will be very rich.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend's pun at a solemn gathering is met with silence, and he is sent to sit out in disgrace."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 145,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "The spirit names itself Captain Drinkwater, an old friend of Mrs James's father, and warns of 'POSH'; they decide to sit once more without Gowing, and Pooter finds himself looking forward to it all day at the office.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A sceptical husband is drawn into his wife's new pastime and finds himself looking forward to it all day at work."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 146,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing leaves a sealed question and says he will believe if the spirits answer it; Cummings is disappointed the spirits say nothing about his affairs; both spirits answer 'ROSES, LILIES, AND COWS'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend sets a sealed test for a household's new enthusiasm and promises to believe in it if it passes."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 147,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "The sealed question was 'What's old Pooter's age?'; Pooter declares no more such nonsense under his roof and silences Mrs James with 'I am master of this house', half hearing a remark from her he hopes he misheard.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man made the butt of a friend's joke through his household's new pastime bans it, and declares he is master here."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 148,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin moves out to furnished rooms in a smart district near the Poshes at half his salary, saying a good address never loses and his parents' suburb is 'off'; Gowing remarks the house feels peaceful again.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son moves out to rooms he can barely afford in a better district, telling his parents their neighbourhood is beneath him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 149,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Cummings comes in pale, saying he has been ill again and not one friend came near him, and throws down the cycling paper's paragraph on his accident as proof; they apologise and keep him to supper, and he says it is better without Lupin.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend reproaches the household once more that nobody came near him when he was ill, and produces the proof in print."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 150,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "A grand trap stops at the door; Pooter ducks from the window and bangs his head, and he and Carrie rush upstairs, each thinking it is someone grand; it is Lupin and Mrs Murray Posh, and Lupin mocks his father for hiding and sends him out to hold the horse.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father hiding from a grand caller finds it is only his son, who mocks him and sends him out to hold the horse."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 151,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin invites his parents to dinner at eight at his new rooms and waves off their wish to dine earlier; Pooter disapproves of Lupin's familiarity with the married Daisy. The dinner proves full dress, which nobody told them, and starts late.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Parents dine at their son's new rooms and find the evening far grander than he warned them, wrongly dressed and fed late."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 152,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Posh's sister 'Lillie Girl' screams with laughter, smokes and pinches Lupin; Lupin gazes at the married Daisy while she sings; Mr Posh is kind, praises Lupin and sends them home in his carriage, and Pooter remembers the £600 Posh lost on Lupin's tip.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Parents watch their son flirt openly with his host's wife, while the wealthy host treats them kindly and praises the boy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 153,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin tells his father Posh is worth thousands and could buy up Perkupp's firm over his head with ready cash; Pooter, for the first time, wonders whether money is fairly divided. At home a cab is waiting with an urgent summons from Hardfur Huttle.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A modest man hears that his son's rich friend could buy his employer's whole firm, and wonders for once if money is fairly shared."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 154,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "At midnight Huttle tells Pooter a rich American friend wants to do large business in his line and that Franching recommended him; Pooter sees a chance to make up to Perkupp for the lost client, and dreams of Huttle offering him a crown he keeps trying to pass to his master.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A loyal man is offered, through a grand acquaintance, a chance to bring his employer more business than his son lost."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 155,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Having written warning Lupin about his attentions to Mrs Posh, Pooter is thanked by Perkupp for his service to the firm and told Perkupp will buy the freehold of his house as a gift; he telegraphs Carrie and his friends and sends for champagne.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A loyal man who has brought his employer valuable business is thanked with a gift that secures his home for life."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 156,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin's reply to the warning tells his father to keep his hair on: he is engaged to Posh's sister, to be married in August, and hopes Gowing and Cummings will come.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father who sent his son a stern warning about his conduct gets a breezy reply announcing a surprise engagement."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
|
||||
#!/usr/bin/env python3
|
||||
"""Assemble records.json and groups.json from batches/ and groups_src.py, and check them."""
|
||||
import collections, glob, json, pathlib
|
||||
from groups_src import G, STANDING
|
||||
here = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent
|
||||
chunks = json.loads((here.parent / 'chunks.json').read_text())
|
||||
stories = json.loads((here.parent / 'stories.json').read_text())
|
||||
recs = [r for f in sorted(glob.glob(str(here / 'batches/s*.json'))) for r in json.loads(open(f).read())]
|
||||
assert [r['chunk'] for r in recs] == list(range(len(chunks))), 'every scene, once, in order'
|
||||
assert all(chunks[r['chunk']]['story'] == r['story'] for r in recs)
|
||||
|
||||
seen = collections.Counter(m for g in G for m in g['members'])
|
||||
dup = [m for m, n in seen.items() if n > 1]
|
||||
assert not dup, f'scenes in two groups: {dup}'
|
||||
by = {r['chunk']: r for r in recs}
|
||||
out = []
|
||||
for g in G:
|
||||
assert 3 <= len(g['options']) <= 5, g['id']
|
||||
st = sorted({by[m]['story'] for m in g['members']})
|
||||
stand = collections.Counter(STANDING[by[m]['story']] for m in g['members'])
|
||||
out.append({
|
||||
'id': g['id'], 'name': g['name'], 'predicament': g['predicament'],
|
||||
'sentence': f"A {g['actor']} wants {g['wants']} from {g['counterpart']}.",
|
||||
'actor': g['actor'], 'wants': g['wants'], 'counterpart': g['counterpart'],
|
||||
'stories': st, 'story_titles': [stories[s]['title'] for s in st],
|
||||
'standing': dict(stand), 'stage': stand.most_common(1)[0][0],
|
||||
'members': [{'chunk': m, 'story': by[m]['story'], 'predicament': by[m]['predicament']} for m in g['members']],
|
||||
'options': [{'text': t, 'source': s, 'moves': mv,
|
||||
'in_group': (int(s.split(':')[1]) in g['members']) if s.startswith('scene:') else None}
|
||||
for t, s, mv in g['options']],
|
||||
})
|
||||
unassigned = [r['chunk'] for r in recs if r['chunk'] not in seen]
|
||||
(here / 'records.json').write_text(json.dumps(recs, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False))
|
||||
(here / 'groups.json').write_text(json.dumps({'groups': out, 'unassigned': unassigned}, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False))
|
||||
multi = sum(len(g['stories']) >= 2 for g in out)
|
||||
print(f'{len(recs)} scenes, {len(out)} groups ({multi} span 2+ stories), '
|
||||
f'{sum(seen.values())} assigned, {len(unassigned)} unassigned: {unassigned}')
|
||||
for g in out:
|
||||
print(f"{g['id']} {len(g['members']):2} scenes {len(g['stories'])} stories stage {g['stage']:6} {g['name']}")
|
||||
src = collections.Counter(o['source'].split(':')[0] for g in out for o in g['options'])
|
||||
print('option sources:', dict(src), '| scene options citing a scene outside their group:',
|
||||
sum(o['in_group'] is False for g in out for o in g['options']))
|
||||
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|
||||
"""Hand-built reference grouping of the Diary of a Nobody predicaments (Claude-written, no inference).
|
||||
|
||||
The book is one continuous diary, so its 23 "stories" are chapters of one life. A group counts as recurring
|
||||
only if its scenes come from at least three chapters that are pairwise NOT consecutive (for example 3, 9
|
||||
and 17, not 4, 5 and 6), so that one incident running over a chapter break is not mistaken for recurrence.
|
||||
Every group also meets the catalogue rule: at least 5 scenes and no chapter over half the members.
|
||||
Each scene is in at most one group; scenes that fit no recurring situation stay unassigned.
|
||||
Options follow DESIGN.md: 3-5 per group, each marked by where it came from --
|
||||
'archetype' a fixed, setting-free option
|
||||
'scene:N' what someone in scene N actually did (or refused to do)
|
||||
'filled' written to fill a gap the scenes leave
|
||||
The narrator is unreliable about his own dignity, so a 'scene:N' option is what he actually did, not
|
||||
what he says it amounted to; and each group carries at least one move a man with more sense of
|
||||
proportion would make, marked 'filled' where nobody in the book makes it.
|
||||
`moves` names spine paths and a direction only (+ / - / risk / set). No magnitudes: the model never
|
||||
chooses a number. Skill labels proposed for this corpus: composure (keeping temper and dignity when
|
||||
slighted, and not needing the last word), tact (saying the right thing to the people above and below
|
||||
you, and knowing when to say nothing).
|
||||
Relationship roles are generic: employer, juniors (younger colleagues), spouse, child, friends (old
|
||||
friends), tradesmen, servants, guests, host, betters (social superiors), acquaintance, family.
|
||||
"""
|
||||
G = [
|
||||
# ---- work -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
dict(id='G01', name='Cheeked by younger colleagues',
|
||||
predicament='Younger colleagues with a fraction of your service answer you with cheek and laugh behind your back, and the employer may be watching.',
|
||||
actor='long-serving senior', wants='respect from the juniors', counterpart='cheeky younger colleagues',
|
||||
members=[6, 7, 19, 36, 108],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Remind them how many years you have served, and demand respect.', 'scene:6', {'relationships.juniors':'-', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Give them a look and say nothing.', 'scene:7', {'composure':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Threaten to report them to the employer.', 'scene:19', {'relationships.juniors':'risk', 'relationships.employer':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Buy the clothes they wear, so they have less to laugh at.', 'scene:36', {'money':'-', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Laugh at yourself before they can, and get on with the work.', 'filled', {'tact':'+', 'relationships.juniors':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G02', name='A reward at work, and what it does at home',
|
||||
predicament='After years of steady service the employer singles you out for an honour or a rise, and how you carry it home decides what it is worth.',
|
||||
actor='long-serving man', wants='to be recognised', counterpart='the employer',
|
||||
members=[21, 22, 87, 88, 90, 154, 155],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Tell everyone at once, and send out for the good wine.', 'scene:90', {'money':'-', 'standing':'+', 'relationships.spouse':'+'}),
|
||||
('Ask the employer how to conduct yourself, and do exactly as told.', 'scene:22', {'relationships.employer':'+', 'tact':'+'}),
|
||||
('Go and ask the employer what the reward is to be.', 'scene:88', {'relationships.employer':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Let your thanks go unspoken; he can see them.', 'scene:155', {'relationships.employer':'+'}),
|
||||
('Bank the rise and change nothing at home.', 'filled', {'money':'+', 'composure':'+'})]),
|
||||
# ---- the people who serve you ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
dict(id='G03', name='Tradesmen and servants who show you no deference',
|
||||
predicament='A tradesman or a servant treats you as no better than they are, and you must decide how much respect to insist on.',
|
||||
actor='respectable householder', wants='the deference due to him', counterpart='tradesmen and servants',
|
||||
members=[3, 5, 12, 23, 25, 27, 30, 33, 48, 53, 92, 115, 142],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Stand on your dignity and take your custom elsewhere.', 'scene:3', {'relationships.tradesmen':'-', 'money':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Lose your temper and box their ears.', 'scene:23', {'composure':'-', 'standing':'-', 'flags.lost_temper':'set'}),
|
||||
('Declare you are master here and send them about their business.', 'scene:53', {'relationships.servants':'-', 'standing':'+'}),
|
||||
('Pay what they ask, and call it a robbery.', 'scene:33', {'money':'-', 'relationships.tradesmen':'-'}),
|
||||
('Be civil and firm, and let the familiarity pass.', 'filled', {'composure':'+', 'tact':'+'})]),
|
||||
# ---- old friends -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
dict(id='G04', name='A falling-out with an old friend',
|
||||
predicament='You and an old friend have fallen out, over a slight, a neglect or a liberty, and one of you will have to make the first move.',
|
||||
actor='old friend', wants='the friendship back, on his own terms', counterpart='an aggrieved old friend',
|
||||
members=[10, 11, 31, 32, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 116, 149],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Write a letter so carefully worded that it apologises for you.', 'scene:11', {'relationships.friends':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Send a costly peace offering.', 'scene:32', {'money':'-', 'relationships.friends':'+'}),
|
||||
('Say nothing, and wait for them to come to you.', 'scene:10', {'composure':'+', 'relationships.friends':'-'}),
|
||||
('Take their flimsy excuse and laugh it off.', 'scene:97', {'relationships.friends':'+', 'tact':'+'}),
|
||||
('Say plainly, once, what hurt you, and let it go.', 'filled', {'relationships.friends':'risk', 'composure':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G05', name='Old friends who make free with your home',
|
||||
predicament='Old friends treat your home, your table and your good nature as their own, and bring their jokes and their acquaintances with them.',
|
||||
actor='householder', wants='to be treated as a host, not a convenience', counterpart='old friends who take liberties',
|
||||
members=[1, 43, 66, 68, 70, 84, 109, 143],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Keep open house and put up with it.', 'scene:68', {'money':'-', 'relationships.friends':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Speak your mind to the friend who brought the stranger.', 'scene:70', {'relationships.friends':'-', 'standing':'+'}),
|
||||
('Tell them pointedly that you are engaged tomorrow.', 'scene:69', {'tact':'+', 'relationships.guests':'-'}),
|
||||
('Threaten to end the evening if they cannot behave.', 'scene:143', {'relationships.friends':'-', 'flags.put_foot_down':'set'}),
|
||||
('Laugh with them, and let them be the hosts next time.', 'filled', {'relationships.friends':'+', 'money':'+', 'tact':'+'})]),
|
||||
# ---- dignity ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
dict(id='G06', name='A joke nobody laughs at',
|
||||
predicament='You have thought of a joke you are sure is excellent, and the people you tell it to are busy, touchy or not listening.',
|
||||
actor='would-be wit', wants='a laugh', counterpart='family and friends',
|
||||
members=[8, 9, 18, 89, 120, 144],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Tell it, and laugh loud enough for everyone.', 'scene:18', {'relationships.friends':'risk', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Repeat it, in case they missed it.', 'scene:89', {'relationships.child':'-', 'tact':'-'}),
|
||||
('Enjoy it privately, and write it down.', 'scene:8', {'composure':'+'}),
|
||||
('Take the silence in good part and sit out.', 'scene:144', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.friends':'+'}),
|
||||
('Keep it to yourself: the moment is wrong.', 'filled', {'tact':'+', 'relationships.spouse':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G07', name='A mishap at the very moment of dignity',
|
||||
predicament='Just as you mean to impress or rebuke someone, a small accident of your own making turns you into the joke.',
|
||||
actor='man on his dignity', wants='to be taken seriously', counterpart='the onlookers',
|
||||
members=[4, 16, 47, 51, 71, 76],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Carry on with your speech as if nothing had happened.', 'scene:47', {'composure':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Give up the moment rather than face them looking foolish.', 'scene:71', {'standing':'-', 'relationships.betters':'-'}),
|
||||
('Pay for the damage, to show you are a gentleman.', 'scene:76', {'money':'-', 'standing':'+'}),
|
||||
('Write a cutting letter about it afterwards.', 'scene:16', {'standing':'-', 'flags.cutting_letter':'set'}),
|
||||
('Laugh at yourself first.', 'filled', {'composure':'+', 'standing':'+', 'tact':'+'})]),
|
||||
# ---- keeping up appearances ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
dict(id='G08', name='Keeping up appearances on a small income',
|
||||
predicament='The people you want to keep up with spend and dress as you cannot afford to, and there is a cheap way to seem as if you can.',
|
||||
actor='householder of modest means', wants='to look respectable', counterpart='fashionable friends and acquaintances',
|
||||
members=[13, 37, 62, 77, 110],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Say you despise such things, which is cheaper than having them.', 'scene:13', {'money':'+', 'standing':'risk', 'flags.proud_of_plainness':'set'}),
|
||||
('Decline the invitation, and call it a dislike of society.', 'scene:62', {'money':'+', 'relationships.acquaintance':'-'}),
|
||||
('Buy the finery to keep up.', 'scene:37', {'money':'-', 'standing':'+'}),
|
||||
('Doctor the price so the present looks dearer.', 'scene:77', {'standing':'+', 'flags.faked_it':'set'}),
|
||||
('Live plainly and say so without apology.', 'filled', {'composure':'+', 'standing':'-', 'money':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G09', name='Playing the host beyond your means',
|
||||
predicament='You want to play the generous host, or treat someone who matters, and your purse, your house or your arrangements are not up to it.',
|
||||
actor='would-be host', wants='to treat them handsomely', counterpart='the guests he wants to impress',
|
||||
members=[14, 15, 34, 60, 112, 113, 114],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Rely on a favour promised by a new acquaintance.', 'scene:14', {'money':'+', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Invite them home on the spur of the moment, and improvise.', 'scene:34', {'relationships.spouse':'-', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Help everyone lavishly, and trust that it is all provided.', 'scene:112', {'money':'risk', 'relationships.guests':'+'}),
|
||||
('Pay what you must, and hide the damage from your wife.', 'scene:114', {'money':'-', 'relationships.spouse':'+', 'flags.hid_the_bill':'set'}),
|
||||
('Offer a plain evening you can afford, and say so.', 'filled', {'tact':'+', 'money':'+', 'standing':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G10', name='Out of your depth among your betters',
|
||||
predicament='You are a guest among people above your station, you know nobody, and every remark you make seems to be the wrong one.',
|
||||
actor='modest guest', wants='to pass muster', counterpart='grander hosts and guests',
|
||||
members=[24, 111, 118, 119, 121, 123, 124, 151],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Accept every invitation from above: you cannot afford to offend.', 'scene:123', {'relationships.betters':'+', 'money':'-'}),
|
||||
('Arrive late, to seem fashionable.', 'scene:111', {'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Make conversation about what is in front of you, and hope it lands.', 'scene:119', {'tact':'-', 'relationships.host':'-'}),
|
||||
('Stay close to your wife and say little.', 'scene:24', {'relationships.spouse':'+', 'composure':'+'}),
|
||||
('Ask your host about his things before you give opinions on them.', 'filled', {'tact':'+', 'relationships.host':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G11', name='Told your steady life is mediocre',
|
||||
predicament='Someone cleverer or richer tells you that your safe, respectable, modest life is the mark of a nobody.',
|
||||
actor='contented man', wants='to think his life worthwhile', counterpart='brilliant or wealthy scorners',
|
||||
members=[72, 125, 126, 128, 136, 148, 153],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Say you are not competent to offer an opinion.', 'scene:126', {'standing':'-', 'composure':'+'}),
|
||||
('Refuse, in writing, to be drawn into the argument.', 'scene:69', {'composure':'+', 'relationships.acquaintance':'-'}),
|
||||
('Tell yourself you are happy because you are not ambitious.', 'scene:128', {'composure':'+', 'flags.content':'set'}),
|
||||
('Wonder, for once, whether money is fairly shared.', 'scene:153', {'flags.doubts':'set'}),
|
||||
('Answer that a steady life is a choice, and say why.', 'filled', {'standing':'+', 'tact':'+'})]),
|
||||
# ---- home ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
dict(id='G12', name='A tiff at home',
|
||||
predicament='You and your wife have flared up over something small, and each of you is sure the other started it.',
|
||||
actor='husband', wants='peace, and to be in the right', counterpart='his wife',
|
||||
members=[2, 17, 26, 28, 29, 35, 61, 86],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Insist you were in the right, calmly and at length.', 'scene:29', {'relationships.spouse':'-', 'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Dine out, and leave a peace offering on her table.', 'scene:35', {'money':'-', 'relationships.spouse':'+'}),
|
||||
('Say it is merely a matter of taste.', 'scene:17', {'relationships.spouse':'-'}),
|
||||
('Hold your tongue and let it pass.', 'archetype', {'composure':'+', 'relationships.spouse':'+'}),
|
||||
('Admit you drank more than you meant, and apologise.', 'filled', {'relationships.spouse':'+', 'standing':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G13', name='Nobody at home takes you seriously',
|
||||
predicament='Your wife, your son and your friends have stopped taking you seriously, and your opinions and pastimes are laughed at in your own house.',
|
||||
actor='head of the household', wants='to be listened to', counterpart='his family',
|
||||
members=[42, 74, 75, 122, 139, 140, 147],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Declare that you are master in this house.', 'scene:147', {'standing':'risk', 'relationships.spouse':'-', 'flags.put_foot_down':'set'}),
|
||||
('Vow never to mention it again.', 'scene:122', {'relationships.family':'-', 'composure':'-'}),
|
||||
('Refuse to take part, and sit somewhere else.', 'scene:140', {'relationships.spouse':'-'}),
|
||||
('Give way, and treat them as they want to be treated.', 'scene:42', {'relationships.child':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Join in for once, on their terms.', 'scene:141', {'relationships.spouse':'+', 'composure':'+'})]),
|
||||
# ---- the grown son ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
dict(id='G14', name='A grown son who looks down on your life',
|
||||
predicament='Your grown son sneers at your name, your friends, your employer and your house, and still lives under your roof.',
|
||||
actor='father', wants="his son's respect", counterpart='a scornful grown son',
|
||||
members=[38, 39, 50, 55, 63, 78, 81, 132, 135, 150],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Tell him plainly that beggars cannot be choosers.', 'scene:50', {'relationships.child':'-', 'standing':'+'}),
|
||||
('Leave the room with silent dignity.', 'scene:78', {'composure':'+', 'relationships.child':'-'}),
|
||||
('Say nothing, for fear of setting him off.', 'scene:38', {'relationships.child':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Let his mother put him in his place.', 'scene:81', {'relationships.spouse':'+', 'tact':'+'}),
|
||||
('Defend your employer and your friends to his face.', 'filled', {'relationships.employer':'+', 'relationships.child':'risk', 'standing':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G15', name="A grown son's unwise match",
|
||||
predicament='Your grown son has set his heart on someone you think wrong for him, and every word you say against it binds him closer.',
|
||||
actor='father', wants='his son safely matched', counterpart='a son in love, and the one he loves',
|
||||
members=[54, 56, 64, 100, 152, 156],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Tell him exactly what you think of the match.', 'scene:56', {'relationships.child':'-', 'flags.spoke_against_match':'set'}),
|
||||
('Keep your dismay to yourself and be civil to them.', 'scene:54', {'composure':'+', 'relationships.child':'+'}),
|
||||
('Write him a stern warning about his conduct.', 'scene:156', {'relationships.child':'risk', 'standing':'+'}),
|
||||
('Let him find out for himself.', 'archetype', {'relationships.child':'+', 'composure':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G16', name='Placing a son who throws his places away',
|
||||
predicament='Your grown son has lost another post, and the only way to place him again is to spend your own good name with people who matter.',
|
||||
actor='father with a steady record', wants='his son settled', counterpart='the employer and other firms',
|
||||
members=[40, 44, 49, 98, 105, 106, 107],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Write to every firm you know.', 'scene:44', {'standing':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Ask your own employer to take him on.', 'scene:105', {'relationships.employer':'risk', 'relationships.child':'+', 'flags.vouched_for_son':'set'}),
|
||||
('Confide your worries about him to the employer.', 'scene:98', {'relationships.employer':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Order him to withdraw his resignation and apologise.', 'scene:40', {'relationships.child':'-', 'standing':'+'}),
|
||||
('Leave him to find his own place.', 'filled', {'relationships.child':'-', 'relationships.employer':'+', 'money':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G17', name='Left to answer for your son',
|
||||
predicament='Your grown son has wronged or embarrassed someone, and it falls to you to face them, explain him or disown him.',
|
||||
actor='father', wants='to keep his own good name', counterpart='the people his son has wronged',
|
||||
members=[41, 85, 103, 129, 130, 131, 134, 137],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Change the subject.', 'scene:41', {'tact':'+', 'relationships.friends':'-'}),
|
||||
('Keep the complaint to yourself.', 'scene:85', {'relationships.spouse':'risk', 'composure':'+'}),
|
||||
('Disown what he did, in writing.', 'scene:131', {'relationships.employer':'+', 'relationships.child':'-'}),
|
||||
('Console the injured party yourself.', 'scene:103', {'money':'-', 'relationships.friends':'+'}),
|
||||
('Defend him: he is only a boy.', 'filled', {'relationships.child':'+', 'relationships.employer':'-', 'standing':'-'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G18', name="Your son's fast money",
|
||||
predicament='Your grown son has found an easy road to money, and wants you to spend, invest or rejoice on the strength of it.',
|
||||
actor='careful father', wants='to keep what he has', counterpart='a son with a sure thing',
|
||||
members=[57, 91, 99, 101, 102],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Put your savings in on his tip.', 'scene:101', {'money':'risk', 'relationships.child':'+'}),
|
||||
('Let him pay for the show, and worry quietly.', 'scene:57', {'standing':'risk', 'relationships.child':'+'}),
|
||||
('Tell him to his face that speculation is horrifying.', 'scene:91', {'relationships.child':'-', 'composure':'+'}),
|
||||
('Ask what he has risked himself before you risk a penny.', 'filled', {'tact':'+', 'money':'+'})]),
|
||||
dict(id='G19', name="Your son's friends take over your home",
|
||||
predicament="Your grown son's young friends have taken over your home with their own jokes and manners, and treat you as a fossil in your own chair.",
|
||||
actor='householder and father', wants='his house back', counterpart="his son's set",
|
||||
members=[52, 58, 59, 65, 67, 69, 73, 82],
|
||||
options=[
|
||||
('Drop hints that it is late, and wait.', 'scene:52', {'composure':'+', 'standing':'-'}),
|
||||
('Rise and insist the foolery stops at once.', 'scene:82', {'standing':'risk', 'relationships.child':'-', 'flags.put_foot_down':'set'}),
|
||||
('Ask them to stay to supper, to keep your son at home.', 'scene:65', {'money':'-', 'relationships.child':'+'}),
|
||||
('Show your son what his friend wrote of you, and expect him to take your side.', 'scene:73', {'relationships.child':'risk'}),
|
||||
('Leave the young ones to it and see your own friends elsewhere.', 'filled', {'tact':'+', 'relationships.child':'+', 'standing':'-'})]),
|
||||
]
|
||||
|
||||
# Protagonist standing by chapter (story index = chapter - 1), for stage assignment (DESIGN.md "Stages").
|
||||
# Per chapter, not per scene: a coarse first cut, and the one place this grouping uses a judgement not in the text.
|
||||
STANDING = {0:'low', 1:'low', 2:'low', 3:'low', 4:'low', 5:'low', 6:'low', 7:'low', 8:'low', 9:'low',
|
||||
10:'low', 11:'low', 12:'low', 13:'middle', 14:'middle', 15:'middle', 16:'middle', 17:'middle',
|
||||
18:'middle', 19:'middle', 20:'middle', 21:'middle', 22:'middle'}
|
||||
# Chapters 1-13: a clerk of twenty years' standing, below the senior clerks, whom the newest junior
|
||||
# cheeks: low. Chapter 14 opens with his promotion to senior clerk and a £100 rise; from there to the
|
||||
# end he is middle. Nobody ranks high: the principal, Mr Perkupp, is never the protagonist, and the
|
||||
# house he gives Pooter in the last chapter is a reward, not a rise in rank.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
|
||||
#!/usr/bin/env python3
|
||||
"""Render groups.json + records.json as one self-contained page: REFERENCE.html."""
|
||||
import html, json, pathlib
|
||||
here = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent
|
||||
d = json.loads((here / 'groups.json').read_text())
|
||||
recs = {r['chunk']: r for r in json.loads((here / 'records.json').read_text())}
|
||||
stories = json.loads((here.parent / 'stories.json').read_text())
|
||||
e = html.escape
|
||||
SRC = {'archetype': 'archetype', 'filled': 'filled gap'}
|
||||
def src(o):
|
||||
if o['source'].startswith('scene:'):
|
||||
n = o['source'].split(':')[1]
|
||||
return f'from scene {n}' + ('' if o['in_group'] else ' <span class="warn">(outside this group)</span>')
|
||||
return SRC[o['source']]
|
||||
def moves(m): return ' '.join(f'<code>{e(k)} {e(v)}</code>' for k, v in m.items())
|
||||
def scene(c):
|
||||
r = recs[c]
|
||||
return (f'<details><summary><b>{c}</b> · <i>{e(stories[r["story"]]["title"])}</i> — {e(r["predicament"])}</summary>'
|
||||
f'<p class="sum">{e(r["summary"])}</p></details>')
|
||||
out = []
|
||||
for g in d['groups']:
|
||||
out.append(f'''<section><h2>{g["id"]} · {e(g["name"])}</h2>
|
||||
<p class="pred">{e(g["predicament"])}</p>
|
||||
<p class="meta">{e(g["sentence"])} · {len(g["members"])} scenes from {len(g["stories"])} stories
|
||||
({e(", ".join(g["story_titles"]))}) · stage <b>{g["stage"]}</b></p>
|
||||
<h3>Options</h3><ol>{"".join(f"<li>{e(o['text'])} <span class='src'>{src(o)}</span><br>{moves(o['moves'])}</li>" for o in g["options"])}</ol>
|
||||
<h3>Scenes</h3>{"".join(scene(m["chunk"]) for m in g["members"])}</section>''')
|
||||
un = ''.join(scene(c) for c in d['unassigned'])
|
||||
page = f'''<!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8">
|
||||
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><title>Nobody Reference Groups</title>
|
||||
<style>
|
||||
:root{{--bg:#fbfaf7;--fg:#1d1d1b;--mute:#6b6760;--line:#e2ded6;--acc:#2f5d8a;--warn:#a4481c}}
|
||||
@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){{:root{{--bg:#191917;--fg:#e8e6e1;--mute:#a09c94;--line:#34332f;--acc:#8ab4dc;--warn:#e6915f}}}}
|
||||
body{{background:var(--bg);color:var(--fg);font:16px/1.5 Georgia,serif;max-width:52rem;margin:0 auto;padding:1rem 16px 4rem}}
|
||||
h1{{font-size:1.5rem}} h2{{font-size:1.15rem;margin:0 0 .3rem}} h3{{font-size:.8rem;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.06em;color:var(--mute);margin:.9rem 0 .3rem}}
|
||||
section{{border-top:1px solid var(--line);padding:1.2rem 0}} .pred{{font-size:1.05rem;margin:.2rem 0}}
|
||||
.meta,.src,.sum{{color:var(--mute);font-size:.88rem}} .warn{{color:var(--warn)}}
|
||||
code{{font:12px ui-monospace,monospace;border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:3px;padding:0 .3em;margin-right:.2em}}
|
||||
li{{margin:.35rem 0}} details{{margin:.2rem 0}} summary{{cursor:pointer}} .sum{{margin:.2rem 0 .5rem 1.2rem}}
|
||||
</style></head><body>
|
||||
<h1>The Diary of a Nobody: reference groups</h1>
|
||||
<p class="meta">George and Weedon Grossmith, 1892 (Project Gutenberg #1026). One diary: its 23 chapters are the "stories", 157 scenes cut by the same rule as <code>chunk.py</code>.
|
||||
Summaries, predicaments, groups and options written by Claude by reading every scene: no local inference.
|
||||
A comparison baseline, not a pack. Option moves give a direction only, never a number.</p>
|
||||
{"".join(out)}
|
||||
<section><h2>Unassigned ({len(d["unassigned"])})</h2><p class="meta">Scenes that fit no situation recurring in three or more non-consecutive chapters.</p>{un}</section>
|
||||
</body></html>'''
|
||||
(here / 'REFERENCE.html').write_text(page, encoding='utf-8')
|
||||
print('wrote', here / 'REFERENCE.html', len(page), 'bytes')
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,944 @@
|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 0,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter and his wife Carrie have just moved into a modest six-roomed house backing onto the railway; the landlord took £2 off the rent for the noise, and friends are made to use the side door.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple settling into a modest new home take pride in its small comforts and talk themselves past its obvious shortcomings."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 1,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter describes his contented evenings pottering about the house, promises an ironmonger his custom, and notes that his old friend Gowing dropped in only to complain of the smell of paint and leave.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A contented householder tells his old friends to drop in whenever they like, and one of them only comes to complain."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 2,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter chooses a butcher while Carrie, without consulting him, chooses another, so two shoulders of mutton arrive; Cummings and Gowing both trip over the boot-scraper and Pooter makes a pun about it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband and wife each arrange the household's buying without consulting the other, and both orders turn up at the door."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 3,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter sends bad eggs back to the butterman and tells him not to call again; the butterman comes back drunk, abuses him at the door as a mere City clerk, and Pooter manages only a feeble retort.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A respectable man who returns a tradesman's bad goods is insulted at his own door as someone not worth serving."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 4,
|
||||
"story": 0,
|
||||
"summary": "The butterman apologises with a pound of butter and is forgiven; Pooter tries to show off his front door to the curate, but it will not open and the curate tears his trousers on the scraper at the side door; the curate asks him to take the collection plate round, which Pooter takes as a great compliment.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who means to impress an important visitor with his front entrance cannot get it open and must take him round the side."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 5,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "The butcher Pooter did not engage abuses him in front of the neighbours and threatens to sue over the scraper; Pooter blames Carrie; a decorator who cannot match the stair paint talks him into repainting the whole staircase.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A tradesman whose custom was refused abuses a householder in front of the neighbours, and another talks him into a costlier job."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 6,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter rebukes three late junior clerks, and Pitt, seventeen and six weeks in the firm, tells him to keep his hair on and that after twenty years he looks it; next morning a quarrel with the grocer's boy makes Pooter miss his bus.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A long-serving senior rebukes younger colleagues for lateness and is answered with open cheek by the newest of them."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 7,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter is late for the first time in his career on the one morning the principal checks, the others having been tipped off; a senior clerk saves him, Pitt jeers audibly at late head clerks, and Pooter's silent look only makes the juniors laugh; the ironmonger has holed the gas-pipe.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A punctual senior is caught late on the one morning the employer checks, and the younger colleagues he scolded mock him openly."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 8,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing gives Pooter a strong cigar that makes him ill, which he hides; when Gowing complains of dry rot Pooter tells him he is talking dry rot himself, and laughs at his own joke half the night.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man makes a small joke at an old friend's expense and is so delighted with it that he laughs half the night."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 9,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter calls Carrie from her housework to hear a pun about 'boarders' and she tells him it is not worth interrupting her for; Gowing finds fault with the banisters; on Sunday Cummings and Gowing bring along a friend, Stillbrook, for a walk ending at a public house.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband calls his busy wife away to hear a pun and she tells him plainly it was not worth her time."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 10,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "At the inn gate Pooter honestly gives his home district and is refused as not a bona-fide traveller, while his friends lie and are admitted; they leave him waiting outside for nearly an hour, and he walks home in silence and says nothing to Carrie.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man's friends lie their way in where he has been turned away, and leave him waiting outside for an hour."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 11,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter drafts and tears up letters of reproach, then receives a sharp letter from Cummings demanding an explanation of Pooter's conduct; his carefully worded reply amounts to an apology, and his friends take it as one.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man slighted by his old friends ends up apologising to them himself, while telling himself he has generously forgiven them."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 12,
|
||||
"story": 1,
|
||||
"summary": "Declining Cummings' offer of his cousin's whisky, Pooter claims his cellar is full, at which moment the servant brings in a cheap bottle from the grocer wrapped in newspaper and offers to fetch sherry at one-and-three.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who claims a well-stocked cellar to refuse an old friend's offer is exposed when a servant brings in cheap drink."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 13,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "Cummings brings his wine-merchant friend Merton, who agrees the Pooters are no swells; Pooter declares they avoid Society because they do not care for it, and Merton flatters him into ordering a dozen whisky and promises free theatre passes anywhere in London.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A modest householder who claims to scorn fashionable society is flattered by a new acquaintance into buying drink on promised favours."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 14,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie wants to treat her old school friend and her husband, the Jameses, to the theatre, so Pooter asks Merton for passes; Merton sends seats for a minor theatre along with his bill, and Mr James insists on paying the bus fares.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man sets out to treat his wife's old friends to an evening out, relying on free tickets promised by a new acquaintance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 15,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "At the theatre the passes are refused as out of date; while Pooter argues with the manager, James quietly pays for a private box for all four.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A host finds his free tickets refused at the door in front of his guests, and one guest quietly pays for better seats."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 16,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter's clip-on tie falls into the pit and is trodden on, James remarks that his beard hides its absence, and Pooter spends the play with his chin down; next day he writes Merton a cutting letter and misspells 'appreciate' in it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A host humiliated in front of his guests writes a cutting complaint to the acquaintance responsible, and misspells the very word that mattered."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 17,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie proposes making it up to the Jameses with a card evening; Pooter takes up enamel paint and paints flower-pots, the servant's furniture, the coal-scuttle and at last the bath red, dismissing the servant's and Carrie's objections.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband seized by a home-improvement craze redecorates without asking his wife, and dismisses everyone else's opinion as bad taste."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 18,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "Cummings drops in and sneers at Pooter's joke about being the dummy at whist; when Gowing arrives Pooter makes a pun on 'Gowing always coming and Cummings always going', and he and Carrie laugh until his chair breaks.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A host makes a pun on his two old friends' names and laughs at it until the chair gives way beneath him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 19,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "Neither friend laughs; both take offence at a pun on their names and leave. At the office the cheeky junior Pitt apologises humbly, and an hour later Pooter is hit in the face by a ball of paper thrown by one of the clerks, who all look busy.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A senior's threat to report a cheeky junior brings a humble apology, and an hour later a missile from the juniors' desks."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 20,
|
||||
"story": 2,
|
||||
"summary": "Taking a very hot bath for a cold, Pooter sees his hand turn red and believes he is bleeding to death, until he realises the red enamel on the bath has dissolved; he resolves to have it repainted without telling Carrie.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man whose home improvement has gone ridiculously wrong decides to hide it from his wife and have it quietly put right."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 21,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "The Pooters are astounded and thrilled by an invitation to the Lord Mayor's reception; they share a tender moment and a polka, the servant walks in on it, and Pooter decides to ask his principal how to reply.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A modest couple receive an invitation far above their usual station and are overjoyed, unsure even how to answer it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 22,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "Mr Perkupp tells Pooter he put his name forward himself, which deflates him; a vulgar head clerk says he was asked too and may not bother; Carrie's mother returns the invitation stained with port; the tailor takes his pressed suit away because no one could pay a shilling.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man proud of a grand invitation learns his employer arranged it, and that a colleague he looks down on was asked too."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 23,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "On the night the house is in uproar; answering the back door in full dress, Pooter has cabbages pushed at him by the greengrocer's boy, boxes the boy's ears, slips on the cabbage and ends up bleeding, smeared with coal and torn at the knee.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man dressed for the grandest evening of his life loses his temper with a delivery boy and ends up bruised and torn."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 24,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie looks lovely in a borrowed fan and lace; at the Mansion House Pooter speaks briefly to the Lord Mayor and is dismayed that he has never heard of Mr Perkupp, while Carrie keeps saying what a pity it is they know nobody.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple at a grand reception above their station find that nobody there knows them, or the man who got them invited."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 25,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie clings to him and people laugh; at supper Pooter is slapped on the back by his own ironmonger, Farmerson, who is breezily familiar and turns out to be an old friend of one of the sheriffs.",
|
||||
"predicament": "At a grand reception a man is greeted with loud familiarity by a tradesman he employs, who turns out better connected than him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 26,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "Farmerson introduces him to the sheriff without even a 'Mister', and Pooter is honoured to drink a glass with him; Carrie, left standing alone, is sarcastic, and he takes her off to dance.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man flattered to be introduced to a dignitary leaves his wife standing alone in the crowd, and she lets him know it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 27,
|
||||
"story": 3,
|
||||
"summary": "Waltzing in new boots, Pooter slips and brings Carrie down with him to general laughter; Farmerson jokes that they are too old for capers and plies him with drink, and cadges a lift home in their cab.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man showing off his dancing at a grand event falls flat with his wife, and a tradesman he employs makes fun of him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 28,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter wakes ill after the ball and blames the lobster mayonnaise; Carrie answers him sharply, says champagne never did agree with him, walks out mid-sentence and goes to bed without saying good-night.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband suffering after a grand evening finds his wife coldly silent with him, and cannot see what he has done wrong."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 29,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The local paper's list of ball guests leaves the Pooters out but names Farmerson; Pooter writes to complain. When he asks Carrie to explain her conduct, she demands an explanation of his, hints he was drunk, and sneers at his new friend the ironmonger.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband who expects an apology from his wife is instead called to account for his drinking and fawning at a grand event."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 30,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie lists his sins: he let the vulgar ironmonger snub him, drank with him, gave him a lift and asked him in; Gowing then bursts in unannounced dressed as the Lord Mayor, and Pooter coldly rebukes him for the joke.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband is told by his wife how he let a vulgar tradesman snub him in public and then fawned on him all evening."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 31,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing finds his walking-stick enamelled black, says it was his late uncle's and calls Pooter a bigger fool than he looks; the newspaper first misprints the Pooters' name and then mocks them as 'Pewter' for writing in to be listed; Carrie is away and Gowing stays offended.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who improved an old friend's belonging without asking is told it was a treasured keepsake and called a fool."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 32,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter buys Gowing a silver-mounted stick as a peace offering, meaning to understate its price to Carrie; Gowing replies he was never offended and the old stick cost a shilling. Pooter's 'frayed' pun is laughed at by the bus-driver and the office but not by the shirtmaker; evening games resume, Gowing overstepping good taste.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man buys an offended old friend a costly peace offering, then learns the friend never cared and the loss was trifling."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 33,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "A pleasant evening of songs at the Cummingses', where Pooter objects to one verse of Stillbrook's comic song; then the shirtmaker charges more for mending the shirts than they cost new and answers Pooter's complaint with insolence.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A tradesman charges more to mend something than it cost new, and meets the customer's complaint with open insolence."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 34,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter impulsively invites Franching, a man of some style, home to supper; Franching insists on a cab, nobody answers the front door, Pooter climbs in through the kitchen window, and Carrie reminds him it is the servant's day off and there is no food, so he runs out for chops.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man impulsively invites a grander acquaintance home, and finds the door locked, no help in the house and nothing to eat."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 35,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "The Pooters keep quarrelling at meals; Carrie jibes at his late father's money troubles and ends in tears. His principal orders him to take his holiday early; he dines out with Franching to avoid home, leaves Carrie a silver bangle, and bites back an argument about her holiday dress.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband and wife keep flaring into quarrels over nothing, and he avoids home for an evening and brings back a peace offering."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 36,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie tells him his 'Good old' is vulgar and decides their holiday herself; at the office Pitt calls 'Hornpipe' at his loose trousers, so Pooter orders new ones and buys the coloured shirt and tan boots the smart clerks wear.",
|
||||
"predicament": "After a younger colleague jeers at his clothes, a man buys the fashionable things the smarter young men at work are wearing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 37,
|
||||
"story": 4,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie buys an absurdly long parasol because Mrs James has a longer one, and Pooter buys a straw sun-helmet and other holiday finery; then the landlady writes that she has let the whole house to another party.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple spend on holiday finery to keep up with a fashionable friend, and then the lodgings they booked are given to others."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 38,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "The Pooters' twenty-year-old son Willie turns up unannounced from his bank post in the north, announces he now goes by his second name, Lupin, sneers 'Good old Bill' at the respected uncle he was named after, and helps himself to more port.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A grown son arrives home unannounced, drops the name he was christened with, and sneers at the respectable relative it honoured."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 39,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie scolds her husband's 'Good old' but not her son's; Lupin says no clerk at the bank is a gentleman and the manager is a cad, lies in bed until nearly three on the holiday, then announces he has resigned.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A grown son lies in bed past dinner, calls his employer a cad, and announces he has thrown up his post."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 40,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter orders Lupin to write withdrawing his resignation; Lupin laughs that he was sacked, and it emerges he was dismissed for lateness and lack of interest. Pooter dreams of getting him into his own firm, and they go to the seaside, where Lupin is fastidious about the lodgings.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father who orders his son to withdraw a resignation learns the son was in fact dismissed for idleness."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 41,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin slips off to a music-hall turn and Carrie defends him; meeting Gowing on the pier, Pooter changes the subject when asked whether Lupin has left the bank; Lupin refuses to walk the parade with his father in his straw helmet.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father dodges an old friend's awkward question about his son's dismissal, and the son is ashamed to be seen with him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 42,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin mocks his parents' boat trip and goes off to play billiards with Gowing despite his father's disapproval; Carrie tells Pooter to stop treating Lupin as a child, so Pooter offers him a cigar, which Lupin dismisses as twopenny and replaces with a far stronger one.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father's disapproval of his grown son's habits is overruled by his wife, and his peace offering is laughed at."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 43,
|
||||
"story": 5,
|
||||
"summary": "At the Cummingses' Gowing organises a silly lap-sitting game, then stands up so that everyone falls; Carrie hits her head on the fender and the party misses the last train, costing Pooter seven-and-six for a carriage.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend's boisterous prank at a party sends everyone tumbling, hurts the wife, and costs the husband an expensive ride home."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 44,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "Home again, firm after firm writes that it has no vacancy for Lupin; Pooter buys plaster stags' heads to give the hall style; Mrs James comes to stay and talks dress with Carrie for hours; the new neighbours' friends are rowdy.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father writes to firm after firm seeking a place for his dismissed grown son, and every one of them has nothing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 45,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The neighbours' visitors sing a mocking song at Pooter and throw a cracker at his hat; Mrs James fills Carrie's head with fashion; at a supper where Pooter is to refuse the salmon so it goes round, Lupin sneers at the card game and leaves the table.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A respectable householder is mocked by the rowdy visitors next door, who sing at him and throw a cracker at his hat."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 46,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin plays a joke on Gowing that Pooter enjoys, but everyone laughs all evening at something unexplained, which turns out to be an antimacassar hanging from Pooter's coat-tails; Carrie appears in a smock-dress on Mrs James's advice; weeks later Pooter finds pages torn from his diary.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man laughs along with a roomful of guests all evening, not knowing that the joke is something hanging from his own coat."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 47,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie says the lost diary pages are his own fault; his smart retort is spoiled when he knocks over and smashes a wedding-present vase. The servant blames the charwoman, who denies touching the book; meanwhile Mr Perkupp writes that he may have a place for Lupin.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man demands to know who destroyed his cherished private record, and his cutting retort is spoiled when he smashes a treasured gift."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 48,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "The charwoman blames the sweep; the sweep, too polite to rebuke, blames the servant, who rows with him on the soot-covered front steps; Lupin, given a latch-key, is never home.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A householder's inquiry into a small household loss sets the servants and a tradesman blaming each other in a row on his doorstep."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 49,
|
||||
"story": 6,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin crashes in after midnight, ignores his parents and dances noisily in his room; Mr Perkupp secures him an appointment, and Pooter breaks the news over a special bottle of port, to which Lupin says only 'Good biz!'",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father whose employer has found his idle son a post breaks the news over good wine, and the son barely acknowledges it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 50,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin announces he is engaged to Daisy Mutlar without consulting his parents; Carrie is ecstatic and Pooter doubtful. Through Mr Perkupp Lupin takes a clerkship with a firm of stockbrokers and privately sneers at it, and Pooter tells him beggars cannot be choosers.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A grown son announces an engagement without consulting his parents, and sneers at the post his father's employer found him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 51,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "At the Cummingses' fireworks Pooter burns his fingers on Gowing's advice, then taps the host's stalled seven-shilling wheel off its stake and is stormed at by everyone; he and Carrie argue over whether she or the girl's mother should call first.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest who tries to help his host's prized display along knocks it over, and the whole party turns on him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 52,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin brings home Daisy's brother, a gawky amateur comedian, who does imitations for an hour past the family's bedtime, ignores every hint to leave, and then takes Lupin out after midnight.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son's new friend, brought home to amuse his parents, outstays his welcome by hours and then leads the son out at midnight."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 53,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin joins amateur theatricals against his father's wishes. Pooter comes home to find the drunken charwoman and the servant screaming about the diary, and Lupin swearing in front of his mother that the diary is worthless; Pooter announces he is master of the house.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father comes home to a shouting match between the servants and his son swearing before his mother, and insists he is master here."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 54,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter sends the servants off while Lupin roars with laughter; meeting Daisy after church, Pooter's heart sinks at a big young woman some eight years older than his son. Carrie plans a party and suggests inviting Mr Perkupp, though Pooter fears they are not grand enough for him.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father meets the woman his young son means to marry and is dismayed to find her much older than the boy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 55,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Carrie bakes all day for the party; Mr Perkupp may look in; Gowing asks whether to dress. Lupin, anxious to impress Daisy, criticises every arrangement and says old Cummings will look like a greengrocer hired to wait.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son anxious to impress his intended finds fault with his parents' party and sneers at their old friends as common."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 56,
|
||||
"story": 7,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter loses his temper, calls Daisy an older woman who has inveigled Lupin and her brother a loafer; Lupin vows never to darken the door again and storms out, and is back for supper and cards.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father who loses his temper over his son's engagement is told the son will leave forever, and he is back by supper."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 57,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Preparing their first important party, the Pooters hope Mr Perkupp might come; Lupin insists on a hired waiter and six bottles of champagne paid from a lucky City deal, which worries his father, and mocks Pooter's ordinary boots, while his new dress trousers prove too short.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple preparing their first important party hope the husband's employer might come, while their son pushes them into extravagance."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 58,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing greets Pooter at the door by jeering at his short trousers and calls him 'Juggins'; the guests arrive, Daisy in a low-cut crimson dress, Lupin's theatrical club friends pose and crack a table, and Daisy sings four songs badly at Lupin's insistence.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A host greeted at his own door by an old friend's jeer about his clothes watches his party taken over by his son's crowd."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 59,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing and Cummings gorge themselves and gulp the champagne; Lupin carries off the bottle Pooter was saving; while everyone shrieks at a clownish pantomime by Lupin and Frank, Pooter turns to find Mr Perkupp in the doorway, plainly not amused.",
|
||||
"predicament": "The employer arrives unannounced at a man's party in the middle of noisy horseplay, and is plainly not amused by it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 60,
|
||||
"story": 8,
|
||||
"summary": "The supper table is stripped bare and even the soda-water is gone; Mr Perkupp graciously declines port, says he is pleased to see them at home, leaves after minutes and tells Pooter to come in late tomorrow; Pooter thinks the party a failure, Carrie says it was a success, and they dance.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man has nothing left to offer his employer at his own party, and the employer kindly leaves after a few minutes."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 61,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter wakes parched after dreaming the party was a failure; Carrie says champagne never agrees with him, and he insists he drank only port; he greets Lupin's hangover with a 'parachute' pun and they both roar.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who drank too much at his own party insists to his wife he barely touched it, then cheers himself with a pun."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 62,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing praises the party, then shouts in front of the servant that the blancmange is Wednesday's leftovers; the Pooters decline a slight acquaintance's wedding because it would mean a present, calling it a distaste for Society, and Lupin makes a cynical speech about weddings.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple decline a slight acquaintance's invitation, telling themselves they dislike society when they mainly dislike buying a present."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 63,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The leftover blancmange keeps reappearing, disguised with jam; Lupin and Frank burst in on Pooter's dominoes and chant a club ritual at his ignorance of their game; Lupin calls the blancmange 'second-hand goods'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father is ridiculed for his ignorance by his son and his son's friend, using a private ritual of their own set."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 64,
|
||||
"story": 9,
|
||||
"summary": "The Pooters reassure each other that early marriages can be happy and Pooter philosophises about the joys of early hardship; Lupin then enters theatrically, drinks neat whisky and forbids them ever to mention Daisy's name again.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Parents who had reconciled themselves to their son's imprudent engagement learn from his melodramatic outburst that it has been broken off."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 65,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter refuses Lupin brandy and Lupin walks out, Carrie taking his part; next evening Lupin brings Burwin-Fosselton, an amateur actor who imitates Henry Irving all evening and insists on being called by his full double name.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son brings home a self-important friend who monopolises the evening and corrects his host on how to address him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 66,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Fosselton sprawls through supper, kicks Carrie and knocks over the fire-irons, then announces he will come back tomorrow in make-up; Gowing and Cummings invite themselves too, and next evening Gowing brings a silent, vulgar stranger, Padge, without asking or apologising.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Guests invite themselves back to a man's home, and an old friend brings along a stranger without asking or apologising."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 67,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The Irving make-up astonishes everyone; Padge takes the best armchair and smokes; Fosselton patronises Carrie's joke and corrects Pooter on his name again, then digs a nail into Gowing's neck, at which Padge roars; Fosselton promises another make-up tomorrow.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A host finds his home taken over by a young guest's performances and a stranger who sits in the best chair laughing."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 68,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing stays away with a sore neck, but Padge comes again alone and takes the best chair; Carrie smooths things over; Cummings says the imitation is better than the original and Pooter disagrees.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A stranger an old friend brought uninvited returns alone, takes the best chair again, and the host cannot bring himself to object."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 69,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Fosselton tells Pooter to talk about what he understands, Carrie rescues the evening with a comic turn, and Pooter writes a firm letter refusing further argument; Daisy cuts him in the street; the laundress insists she was sent only an odd sock.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A young guest tells his older host, in his own home, to confine himself to talking about what he understands."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 70,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing makes a joke about the odd sock that sets the laundress giggling and Carrie roaring, and Pooter thinks he is losing his sense of humour; Gowing coolly says he brought Padge to repay a dinner; Lupin shouts at Gowing for asking after Daisy.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend coolly admits using a man's home to repay a stranger's hospitality, after making the man's wife laugh at him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 71,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "After church a grand lady of the parish stops to speak to Pooter, but his hat blows into the muddy road and by the time he retrieves it she has walked on with her smart friends; that evening an insolent letter arrives from Burwin-Fosselton.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man flattered that a lady of high standing stops to speak to him loses the moment chasing his hat through the mud."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 72,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "Fosselton's letter tells Pooter to take his defeat gracefully, sets his own art above Pooter's 'life among ledgers', and announces he will go on the stage and reach the top.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A young man who scorns a respectable older man's steady working life writes to tell him their lives are worlds apart."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 73,
|
||||
"story": 10,
|
||||
"summary": "The letter ends by telling Pooter he knows nothing of acting; Pooter shows it to Lupin as proof of his friend's character, and Lupin says he saw it before it was sent, agrees with it, and thinks his father should apologise.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father shows his son an insolent letter from the son's friend, and the son replies that the father should apologise."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 74,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "With Lupin's engagement broken off, the house is gloomy; Pooter reads Carrie extracts from his diary and she walks out, later admitting she was not listening because of Lupin's shirts; Pooter complains that everything is Lupin, and notes his friends rarely call now.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband reads his wife his cherished writing and finds she was not listening, because everything in the house now turns on the son."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 75,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin is impossible about Daisy; when Pooter says the diary might one day be published, Carrie and Lupin burst out laughing, Carrie apologising and Lupin jeering it might fetch a price from a butterman as wrapping paper.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who hopes his private writings might one day be published is laughed at by his wife and his son."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 76,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin refuses to come to the family Christmas with a gloomy speech about snivelling relations; in a crowded card shop Pooter remarks on customers' carelessness and at once knocks over a pile of expensive boxed cards, and under the manager's pointed look feels obliged to buy some.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A customer who has just remarked on others' carelessness knocks over a costly display, and feels obliged to buy the damaged goods."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 77,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter finds a vulgar card among those he bought; Carrie remarks that going into Society means sending two dozen cards; Lupin advises his father to alter the pencilled prices on the backs so people think he paid five times as much.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son advises his father to alter the prices on cheap gifts so that the recipients think he paid five times as much."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 78,
|
||||
"story": 11,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter tells a despondent Lupin he is well rid of Daisy, and Lupin retorts she is worth all his father's friends including 'that inflated sloping-head' Perkupp; Pooter leaves with dignity and trips on the mat; two days later Lupin announces the engagement is on again.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father who runs down his son's former sweetheart hears the son call his revered employer an inflated fool."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 79,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "An insulting anonymous Christmas card sets Pooter suspecting all his friends, the junior Pitt and the charwoman; Lupin laughs at it. At Christmas dinner with Carrie's mother Pooter proposes her health with a speech urging everyone to kiss and make up.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man receives an anonymous insult and finds himself suspecting every friend, colleague and servant he has."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 80,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "The old clergyman takes Pooter's speech as licence to kiss the ladies, and a young stranger, Moss, jumps up with mistletoe and kisses Carrie; Carrie brushes off Pooter's unease, saying he is only a boy, and a nice one.",
|
||||
"predicament": "At a family gathering a forward young stranger kisses a man's wife under cover of a joke, and she makes light of it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 81,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin asks his father to put off Gowing and Cummings because Daisy and Frank are coming; Carrie asks pointedly whether the old friends are not good enough for Daisy or Daisy not good enough for them, and Lupin gives way; Carrie plans to disguise the cut leg of mutton.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son asks his father to put off old friends so his intended can visit, and the mother asks who is not good enough."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 82,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin sneers at his father's friends' cheap clothes; at supper Daisy starts flicking bread, and a bread fight follows in which even Gowing and Cummings join; Gowing throws parsley in Pooter's face, and when he protests Frank turns out the gas.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A host's supper descends into horseplay led by his son's set, and his own old friends join in pelting him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 83,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "In the dark someone punches Pooter hard on the back of the head; he decides it was whoever sent the Christmas card, dreams it was Frank, and compares handwriting, until Carrie points out the card was addressed to Lupin, who says he often receives and sends such cards.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man struck in the dark at his supper suspects a young guest, then finds the insult he resented was never meant for him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 84,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter confides the punch to Gowing as an old friend, and Gowing laughs that he hit something but thought it was a brick wall; Lupin boasts that he took Daisy's stingy father down a peg.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man confides a grievance to an old friend, who laughs that he did it himself and took the man's head for a wall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 85,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Mr Mutlar senior writes that he must decide who is master of his own house and forbids Lupin to enter it again, with sarcastic praise of his modesty; Pooter keeps the letter from Carrie and Lupin.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father receives a letter from his son's prospective father-in-law banning the son from his house, and keeps it to himself."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 86,
|
||||
"story": 12,
|
||||
"summary": "Waiting for Lupin on New Year's Eve in a fog, Pooter and Carrie argue whether the new bottle is whisky or brandy and miss seeing the New Year in for the first time in their marriage; Lupin comes home at two, saying he got lost.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband and wife waiting up for their absent son quarrel over nothing and miss the moment they always kept together."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 87,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Summoned without warning by Mr Perkupp, Pooter waits twenty minutes fearing the worst, then is told that a senior clerk is retiring and that after nearly twenty-one years he is to have a special promotion and a considerable rise.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A long-serving man summoned by his employer fears the worst, and is told instead that his loyal years will be rewarded."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 88,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Perkupp hurries off before Pooter can thank him; Carrie at once plans a chimney-glass and Pooter a new costume for her. Next day, in suspense, Pooter goes to ask about it and Perkupp has half forgotten and puts him off.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man promised a reward at work waits in suspense, and when he finally goes to ask, the employer has half forgotten."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 89,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin urges a share tip on his father, who answers with a pun about 'par' and 'pa' and repeats it for his son's benefit; Lupin calls him 'Joe Miller'. Pooter learns he is to be a senior clerk, and at last raises Mr Mutlar's letter with Lupin.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father repeats his little joke so that his grown son will laugh, and the son answers him with a sneer."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 90,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin calls Mutlar a blithering idiot and says Daisy will wait ten years. Perkupp tells Pooter his salary will rise by £100, far beyond the usual £10; Pooter sends for champagne and announces to Lupin that twenty-one years' industry has been rewarded.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man given a large rise after long, loyal service celebrates at home and tells his son how steady industry is rewarded."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 91,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin toasts that, having paid no attention to his superiors' interests for a few weeks, he has made £200 in a day on a share tip from his employer; he then hires a pony-trap, tells his father he is out of date, and reckons his future income at £1,250 a year.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father's reward for long years of steady work is outshone the same evening by his son's windfall from speculation."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 92,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin promises to follow only his employer's tips; Gowing, having made £10 on one, invites the Pooters and Cummingses round. Pooter rebukes the servant for shaking crumbs on the carpet and runny eggs; she retorts that he is always complaining and cries, and he escapes to his bus.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A master rebukes a servant for small carelessness, and she answers that he is always complaining and bursts into tears."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 93,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "A new chimney-glass is hung. Cummings appears after weeks away, having been seriously ill, and complains bitterly that no one came near him or asked after him, though it was in the cycling paper, and that illness shows who one's true friends are.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man is reproached by an old friend who was seriously ill and says none of his friends came near him or asked."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 94,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing slaps the invalid Cummings on the back and jeers that he looks it, then invites them all round; when the Pooters arrive at his lodgings nobody expects them, a man in shirt-sleeves shuts the door on them, and Pooter spoils his gloves on fresh paint.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Guests arrive at an old friend's home as invited, find nobody expecting them, and are left on the doorstep by a stranger."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 95,
|
||||
"story": 13,
|
||||
"summary": "The man abuses Pooter for scratching his paint and says Gowing has gone away to Croydon for the weekend; the lame Cummings arrives too, hears it, and strikes the ground with his stick, calling Gowing a scoundrel.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend who invited people round has gone off to a better invitation without a word, leaving them abused on his doorstep."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 96,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter frets over £20 he invested on Lupin's advice, as Cummings has too; a fortnight on, Gowing has not explained himself, and when Cummings calls they agree Gowing has behaved like a cad.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Two men left standing on an old friend's doorstep agree he has behaved like a cad, and wait to see if he will explain."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 97,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing breezes in, claims he posted a note cancelling the evening and puns about letters 'miscarrying'; Pooter's quip that he hopes Gowing will attend the next meeting sets everyone laughing. Lupin persuades Carrie to a Sunday drive in his trap, and Pooter comes along on the back seat.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend who stood people up breezes in with a flimsy excuse and a pun, and is forgiven by the evening's end."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 98,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin drives recklessly, abuses pedestrians and chaffs a cartload of roughs who follow them pelting orange-peel; next day Pooter confides his worries about Lupin to Mr Perkupp, who kindly says the boy will steady down and wishes the firm had room for him.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A worried father confides his son's wild conduct to his employer, who kindly reassures him that the boy will steady down."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 99,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin gravely announces news that will 'distress' them: he has given up the trap, and Pooter, relieved, opens port; Gowing brings a pin-the-tail game. Lupin says Daisy has promised her father not to write; Frank Mutlar brings in a nervous, fat young swell, Murray Posh.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father braced for bad news is so relieved his son has given up an extravagance that he opens the good wine."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 100,
|
||||
"story": 14,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing tactlessly asks Posh about his family's cheap hats; Posh talks at length about hat-making and plainly knows Daisy well, and Frank jokes that Posh will cut Lupin out; Lupin scorns jealousy and says Daisy would wait twenty years for him.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son scorns any thought that a wealthy, dull rival could take his intended, sure she would wait twenty years for him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 101,
|
||||
"story": 15,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter breaks a hand-mirror and Carrie foresees misfortune; Lupin, agitated, reports that the shares he advised have collapsed but that he sold his father's for £2, which Pooter takes for a profit until Lupin explains he has lost £18 of his £20, and Cummings and Gowing everything.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father who invested on his son's confident tip learns the shares have collapsed, and at first mistakes his loss for a profit."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 102,
|
||||
"story": 15,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin hints his employer has vanished; Gowing arrives cheerful, Lupin reveals he never had any money in the shares himself, and Gowing says he lost nothing because he persuaded Cummings to take his share.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father learns his son risked none of his own money on the tip he urged on everyone, and a friend offloaded his share."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 103,
|
||||
"story": 15,
|
||||
"summary": "When Cummings rings, Lupin and then Gowing climb out of the parlour window to avoid him, and Pooter is left to console him and send out for his new health spirit; next morning the paper reports that Lupin's employer has absconded.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son and an old friend escape through a window from a man ruined by their tip, leaving the father to face him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 104,
|
||||
"story": 15,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin shrugs at his firm's failure but is crushed by a letter saying Daisy is to marry Murray Posh; as he leaves he smiles at the consolation that, on his advice, Posh put £600 into the collapsed shares.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son who has lost his post and his intended on the same morning consoles himself that his rival lost money on his advice."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 105,
|
||||
"story": 16,
|
||||
"summary": "On Daisy's wedding day Lupin goes off for the day; Gowing says Lupin can make a fool of himself unaided and Carrie makes him apologise. Next morning a letter from Mr Perkupp asks Pooter to bring Lupin to the office, and Pooter begs his son to dress quietly.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father's long-held dream comes within reach when his employer asks him to bring his wayward son in to be seen."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 106,
|
||||
"story": 16,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin dresses soberly and calls it a 'respectable funereal junior-clerk make-up', smashes a new hat he finds is his rival's make, and after an hour with Perkupp is taken on; Pooter can only tell Perkupp he is a good man, and Perkupp replies that Pooter is, and they hope his son will follow his example.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father whose employer takes his son into the firm can only stammer his thanks, and is told he is the example to follow."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 107,
|
||||
"story": 16,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter nearly weeps on the bus while Lupin quarrels with a fat passenger; friends drink Lupin's health, and Pooter lies awake imagining travelling to work with his son and the boy helping about the house and garden.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father whose son has joined him at work lies awake imagining them sharing everything, from the daily journey to the garden."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 108,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "A pen Gowing recommended leaks, and when Pooter bangs it on his desk Mr Perkupp shouts at the noise, supposing it is Pitt; Pitt gleefully says aloud that it is Mr Pooter and has been all morning, and Lupin laughs behind his desk; the shop will not take the pen back.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A senior blamed by the employer for a noise is loudly named by a younger colleague, while his own son laughs nearby."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 109,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing brings an invitation to a Volunteer ball; Pooter serves him a sparkling wine given by Mr James, which Gowing mocks and which is indeed sour; at cards the Pooters lose five shillings between them and Gowing somehow claims to have lost too.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend mocks the gift wine his host serves him, and somehow comes out ahead at cards though nobody else won."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 110,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "The neighbours' boys throw bones over the fence and pull faces whenever the Pooters have guests; the servant spoils the sauce. For the ball Pooter has Carrie wear her Mansion House dress in case Mr Perkupp is there, and Lupin says he hears it is a 'bounders' ball'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple dress in their best for a function they think fashionable, hoping to meet the employer, while their son says it is common."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 111,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "Arriving an hour late to be fashionable after a long search for the hall, Pooter underpays the grumbling cabman, knows no one among the uniforms, and is glad to be greeted by Padge.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple arrive late to seem fashionable at a function far from home, find they know nobody, and welcome an acquaintance they dislike."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 112,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "In the empty supper-room Pooter helps Carrie, a new acquaintance, Mrs Lupkin, Padge and several civil strangers to champagne, pie and ices, thinking himself recognised from the City and that civility costs nothing.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest at a grand function generously helps everyone around him to food and wine, believing it is all provided free."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 113,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "The others go to dance; the waiter refuses Pooter's shilling tip and presents a bill for £3 0s 6d, the invitation not covering refreshments; Pooter turns out his pockets and is nine shillings short, and the manager takes his card.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who played the generous host at a function is handed the bill for everyone's supper and cannot quite pay it."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 114,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "Deeply humiliated, Pooter hides the bill from Carrie so as not to spoil her evening; Mrs Lupkin presses them to come and stay with her at the seaside and they accept; in pouring rain they find a cab willing to take them only part of the way.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man humiliated by an unexpected bill hides it from his wife so as not to spoil her evening."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 115,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "With no money left for the fare, Pooter is abused by the cabman, who pulls his beard; a policeman says he saw nothing and people should not ride without money; they walk two miles home in the rain and Pooter drafts a letter to the paper. Mrs James decorates the mantelpiece with toy insects as the fashion.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man with no money for his fare is abused and manhandled, and the law standing by says he has only himself to blame."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 116,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "The next-door neighbour accuses Pooter of boring into his cistern and threatens a bill; Cummings, laid up again after a fall, is indignant when Lupin rushes out laughing and complains that once more nobody inquired after him; Carrie takes up manicure on Mrs James's advice.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend laid up again reproaches a man for never asking after him, while the man's son runs out laughing at his fall."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 117,
|
||||
"story": 17,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter resents Mrs James's influence on Carrie; Mrs Lupkin's letter reveals her pressing invitation was to her own commercial hotel at half price, and Pooter declines with what Carrie calls satire; a suit he chose by gaslight arrives as loud mustard-and-green check, and Carrie giggles.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man discovers that a chance acquaintance's warm invitation to come and stay was really an offer to let him cheap rooms."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 118,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "An old schoolfellow, Teddy Finsworth, hails Pooter in the street, boasts that his provincial post is grander than any in London, and presses the Pooters to Sunday dinner at his well-to-do uncle's; Carrie is reluctant but they accept and cancel their own joint.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man is hailed by an old schoolfellow who boasts of his own importance and presses him to dine with grander relations."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 119,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "They arrive hot and late and the collie muddies Carrie's new skirt; the uncle shows off pictures bought cheap that he has been told are valuable, and Pooter remarks that the face in a crayon portrait looks pinched, to learn it was drawn after death of the host's sister-in-law.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest in a grander house criticises a portrait to his host and learns that it shows the host's dead relative."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 120,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter then jokes about a jolly portrait, which is of the host's dead brother; he makes a pun on the name of a late guest, Mr Short, repeating it twice with a little laugh, and nobody sees it; Short proves coarse, and the hostess says he is 'privileged'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest makes a pun on a stranger's name, repeats it twice with a little laugh, and nobody at all sees the joke."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 121,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "Under the table one dog snaps at Pooter's boots and another licks all the blacking off them, which the hostess says it always does to visitors; port on beer makes him sleepy, his school reminiscences send everyone to sleep, and people giggle at his dull boots on the way home.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest in a grander house is harassed by the family's pets, and the hostess says they always do that to visitors."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 122,
|
||||
"story": 18,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter tells Lupin, Gowing, Cummings and Carrie about a vivid dream of burning ice; Lupin calls it rot, Gowing says nothing is duller than other people's dreams, Cummings agrees, Carrie says he tells her one every morning, and they all roar; he vows never to tell another.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who tells his family and old friends about a vivid dream is snubbed by every one of them at once."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 123,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "Franching invites the Pooters at a few hours' notice to fill two empty places at a dinner for a celebrated American writer; Pooter overrides Carrie's objections because Franching is rich and influential, economises on the telegram, and they arrive too early.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A couple invited at the last moment to fill empty places at a wealthier man's dinner accept, since they cannot afford to offend him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 124,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "The party is distinguished, with a hired waiter, flowers and champagne; Pooter knows nobody, tells his host he prefers having no lady to take in, then realises it was uncomplimentary; he sits by a deaf lady while Hardfur Huttle does all the talking.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A modest guest at a distinguished dinner knows nobody, makes a tactless remark to his host, and sits silent while a celebrity talks."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 125,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "Huttle dazzles the table with 'unorthodox' opinions, keeps the ladies from withdrawing, and declares that the 'happy medium' means miserable mediocrity and respectability means insipidness, then asks Pooter whether that is not so.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A brilliant guest at a grand dinner mocks respectable middle ways, then turns and asks the modest man beside him to agree."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 126,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter can only say he is not competent to offer an opinion; Huttle goes on to scorn the half-hearted man in a suburban villa 'with a soft beard and a made tie that hooks on', and Pooter, who wears one, keeps glancing at himself in the glass.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A modest guest hears a celebrated talker sneer at exactly his kind of man and his clothes, and has no answer."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 127,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "Huttle praises Franching's plain home with no hired waiter and no grocer's champagne, making his host wince, and sneers at milksops who play dominoes at home with their wives and at frivolous matrons who think a suburban dance is Society; Pooter leaves early for his train.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A celebrated guest's praise of the host's plain living exposes the host's pretences, while his scorn for homebodies lands on another guest."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 128,
|
||||
"story": 19,
|
||||
"summary": "At home Carrie says Huttle is just like Lupin; Pooter lies awake reflecting that such ideas make or break men, that he himself is happy because he is not ambitious, and that Lupin, now at Perkupp's, seems content to follow his father's steps.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A contented man tells himself he is happy because he is not ambitious, and hopes his son will follow in his steps."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 129,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "While Pooter and Mr Perkupp were both away ill, the firm's most valued client came in angry, and Lupin received him and recommended a rival firm; Lupin is dismissed, and Pooter, dreading his first ever hard word from his master, is summoned; Perkupp says he, not a junior, will decide when the firm modernises.",
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"predicament": "A long-serving man learns his son has driven the firm's most valued client to a rival, and must face his employer about it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 130,
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"story": 20,
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"summary": "Pooter asks whether Perkupp suspects him of countenancing his son, and Perkupp says he would as soon suspect himself; flustered, Pooter nearly calls him a 'grand old man'. Perkupp admits the firm cannot afford to lose the client and says Pooter can be of service.",
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"predicament": "A loyal man whose son has damaged the firm is assured of his employer's complete trust and asked to help repair it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 131,
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||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Perkupp asks Pooter to write to the client as if on his own initiative, explaining the son was taken on only as an inexperienced favour, and hints he should not spare his son; he declines to see the letter, trusting Pooter, and gives him the day to write it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "The employer asks a loyal man to write privately to a lost client, disowning his own son's conduct as if unprompted."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 132,
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"story": 20,
|
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"summary": "Lupin appears in a new hat he says was a present from an old friend-turned-rival, calls Perkupp an inflated fool, and insists he did no injury: the client was simply tired of a stagnant firm, and he recommended the new one as good business.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son who cost his father's employer its best client calls the employer a fool and insists he has done no harm."
|
||||
},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 133,
|
||||
"story": 20,
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||||
"summary": "The hat was a gift from Murray Posh, Daisy's husband, with whom Lupin is now friends and goes off to lunch; Pooter spends the whole day on the letter to the client, finding Carrie's suggestions useless, and Perkupp again declines to read it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father spends all day on a letter to undo his son's damage, while the son goes off to dine with his former rival."
|
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},
|
||||
{
|
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"chunk": 134,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing, and then Carrie, side with Lupin, and Gowing drinks most of his own small bottle of Madeira. The client replies in a few lines that Pooter's son showed more intelligence in five minutes than the firm has in five years.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father's careful appeal on his employer's behalf is answered in a few curt lines saying his son showed more sense than the firm."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 135,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin receives a £25 commission from the rival firm; Cummings and Gowing take his part; Perkupp tells Pooter the matter is closed; then the rival firm engages Lupin at £200 a year, and Lupin tells his father to drop Perkupp's 'stagnant dummies' for the firm of the future.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A loyal man's son, hired by a rival firm at a handsome salary, urges his father to leave his stagnant employer too."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 136,
|
||||
"story": 20,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin whoops, jumps a chair and rumples his father's hair before going out to dine with the Poshes; Gowing and Cummings congratulate Pooter, saying the boy has more in his head than the three of them, and Carrie calls him a second Hardfur Huttle.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father whose son has prospered by defying everything he believes in is congratulated on the boy by his old friends."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 137,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "At the Jameses' the spoilt son Percy kicks Pooter's shins, slaps Carrie and smashes a guest's watch; when Pooter says that is not his idea of bringing up children, Mrs James retorts that his own son Lupin is no standard of perfection.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A guest kicked by his hosts' spoilt child objects, and the mother retorts that his own son is no model either."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 138,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter says he wishes he liked Mrs James better; Carrie replies that she has put up for years with his vulgar friend Gowing and his dull friend Cummings, and Mrs James has more intellect in her little finger than both; that evening Carrie is absorbed in a book on Spiritualism Mrs James sent.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man who dislikes his wife's fashionable friend is told that she has put up with his vulgar, dull old friends for years."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 139,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Mrs James arrives and takes over, setting up table-turning; Pooter forbids it as he did years ago, and when she presses him to say how it differs from the telegraph, he declines to discuss it.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband tries to forbid a fashionable craze his wife's friend has brought into the house, and is outargued in his own parlour."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 140,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Cummings joins the table, and Pooter's refusal simply leaves him ignored; he sits in the kitchen with Gowing, who jokes that it would be a good thing for Lupin if old Posh died, which horrifies Pooter half the night.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband who refuses to join his wife's new craze is simply left out, and spends the evening sitting apart."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 141,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Pooter writes the laundress a letter he thinks satirical; mending a cornice above the séance, he thoughtlessly gives the floor two raps with his hammer, and Carrie reports a wonderful message; he promises to sit once to oblige her.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A husband who scorns his wife's new pastime thoughtlessly plays a trick on it, then agrees to join in to oblige her."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 142,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "At his first sitting the table spells part of an old aunt's name, which Pooter finds curious. The laundress refunds ninepence for spoiled handkerchiefs; Pooter says it is not enough, until Carrie recalls they cost sixpence, and he must give threepence back. Lupin goes to stay with the Poshes.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man demands compensation from a tradesman for spoiled goods, then learns they cost less than he was given and must refund the difference."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 143,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing joins the next séance and larks about as the table careers across the room; Pooter threatens to light the gas and suspects him of tricks; a spirit repeats 'WARN'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend clowns through a solemn evening his host's household cares about, and the host suspects him of cheating."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 144,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "The table spells 'SPOOF' and Pooter accuses Gowing, who puns that he is sorry he 'spook'; nobody laughs and he is sent to sit out. The table then spells 'NIPUL' (Lupin backwards) and says he will be very rich.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend's pun at a solemn gathering is met with silence, and he is sent to sit out in disgrace."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 145,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "The spirit names itself Captain Drinkwater, an old friend of Mrs James's father, and warns of 'POSH'; they decide to sit once more without Gowing, and Pooter finds himself looking forward to it all day at the office.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A sceptical husband is drawn into his wife's new pastime and finds himself looking forward to it all day at work."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 146,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "Gowing leaves a sealed question and says he will believe if the spirits answer it; Cummings is disappointed the spirits say nothing about his affairs; both spirits answer 'ROSES, LILIES, AND COWS'.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend sets a sealed test for a household's new enthusiasm and promises to believe in it if it passes."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 147,
|
||||
"story": 21,
|
||||
"summary": "The sealed question was 'What's old Pooter's age?'; Pooter declares no more such nonsense under his roof and silences Mrs James with 'I am master of this house', half hearing a remark from her he hopes he misheard.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A man made the butt of a friend's joke through his household's new pastime bans it, and declares he is master here."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 148,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin moves out to furnished rooms in a smart district near the Poshes at half his salary, saying a good address never loses and his parents' suburb is 'off'; Gowing remarks the house feels peaceful again.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A son moves out to rooms he can barely afford in a better district, telling his parents their neighbourhood is beneath him."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 149,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Cummings comes in pale, saying he has been ill again and not one friend came near him, and throws down the cycling paper's paragraph on his accident as proof; they apologise and keep him to supper, and he says it is better without Lupin.",
|
||||
"predicament": "An old friend reproaches the household once more that nobody came near him when he was ill, and produces the proof in print."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 150,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "A grand trap stops at the door; Pooter ducks from the window and bangs his head, and he and Carrie rush upstairs, each thinking it is someone grand; it is Lupin and Mrs Murray Posh, and Lupin mocks his father for hiding and sends him out to hold the horse.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father hiding from a grand caller finds it is only his son, who mocks him and sends him out to hold the horse."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 151,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin invites his parents to dinner at eight at his new rooms and waves off their wish to dine earlier; Pooter disapproves of Lupin's familiarity with the married Daisy. The dinner proves full dress, which nobody told them, and starts late.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Parents dine at their son's new rooms and find the evening far grander than he warned them, wrongly dressed and fed late."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 152,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Posh's sister 'Lillie Girl' screams with laughter, smokes and pinches Lupin; Lupin gazes at the married Daisy while she sings; Mr Posh is kind, praises Lupin and sends them home in his carriage, and Pooter remembers the £600 Posh lost on Lupin's tip.",
|
||||
"predicament": "Parents watch their son flirt openly with his host's wife, while the wealthy host treats them kindly and praises the boy."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 153,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin tells his father Posh is worth thousands and could buy up Perkupp's firm over his head with ready cash; Pooter, for the first time, wonders whether money is fairly divided. At home a cab is waiting with an urgent summons from Hardfur Huttle.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A modest man hears that his son's rich friend could buy his employer's whole firm, and wonders for once if money is fairly shared."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 154,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "At midnight Huttle tells Pooter a rich American friend wants to do large business in his line and that Franching recommended him; Pooter sees a chance to make up to Perkupp for the lost client, and dreams of Huttle offering him a crown he keeps trying to pass to his master.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A loyal man is offered, through a grand acquaintance, a chance to bring his employer more business than his son lost."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 155,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Having written warning Lupin about his attentions to Mrs Posh, Pooter is thanked by Perkupp for his service to the firm and told Perkupp will buy the freehold of his house as a gift; he telegraphs Carrie and his friends and sends for champagne.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A loyal man who has brought his employer valuable business is thanked with a gift that secures his home for life."
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"chunk": 156,
|
||||
"story": 22,
|
||||
"summary": "Lupin's reply to the warning tells his father to keep his hair on: he is engaged to Posh's sister, to be married in August, and hopes Gowing and Cummings will come.",
|
||||
"predicament": "A father who sent his son a stern warning about his conduct gets a breezy reply announcing a surprise engagement."
|
||||
}
|
||||
]
|
||||
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