[
 {"chunk": 155, "story": 12, "summary": "A respectable married official, threatened by a former maid he seduced who swore to leave their baby at his door, finds a bundled infant on his doorstep one night.", "predicament": "A respectable married man, threatened with exposure over an old affair, finds the proof of it left on his doorstep."},
 {"chunk": 156, "story": 12, "summary": "Terrified of his wife, his colleagues and scandal, he hurries off with the baby to leave it at a rich merchant's house before anyone sees.", "predicament": "A man desperate to hide a past wrong from his spouse tries to get rid of the evidence before anyone notices."},
 {"chunk": 157, "story": 12, "summary": "Carrying the child through dark lanes, he realises how cruel it is to pass an innocent baby from door to door and imagines its bleak future among strangers.", "predicament": "A man hurrying to cover up his wrong begins to see the innocent person who will pay for it."},
 {"chunk": 158, "story": 12, "summary": "He looks at the baby, sees his own nose, imagines confessing and adopting it, then fears his colleagues' mockery and leaves it on the step, begging its forgiveness.", "predicament": "A man torn between confessing to his spouse and keeping his reputation chooses the easy way, and is ashamed."},
 {"chunk": 159, "story": 12, "summary": "He turns back, carries the baby home and confesses to his wife on his knees, then learns from the doorman that the baby was a washerwoman's, not his.", "predicament": "A man who finally confesses a hidden wrong to his spouse learns the evidence he feared was never his at all."},
 {"chunk": 160, "story": 12, "summary": "The doorman apologises for having women visitors; the man curses him and tells his furious, tearful wife it was all a joke.", "predicament": "A man who confessed for nothing tries to take it back, and his spouse now knows the truth anyway."}
]