[ { "chunk": 105, "story": 19, "summary": "Steelman, a hard case, seeks out old friends who have married and settled, stays to tea, then for the night, then indefinitely, and tells protesting wives he is their husband's guest.", "predicament": "An old companion from wilder days turns up at a settled man's home, invites himself to stay, and cannot be made to leave." }, { "chunk": 106, "story": 19, "summary": "The only escape is to move, and he helps with that too; his old schoolmate Brown tries to ease him out by inventing a sister-in-law who needs his room.", "predicament": "A settled man tries to ease out an old friend who has overstayed, blaming his wife's family because he cannot say it straight." }, { "chunk": 107, "story": 19, "summary": "Brown flounders and apologises; Steelman cheerfully offers to move into the damp washhouse and borrows a shilling for beer, and Brown gives in.", "predicament": "A man trying to tell an old friend to go loses his nerve, and ends up begging him to stay and buying his beer." }, { "chunk": 108, "story": 19, "summary": "At last Brown comes home drunk and tries to kick Steelman out, gets a hiding, and is nursed and lectured by him next morning on how to treat a guest.", "predicament": "A man who finally tries to throw out an overstaying old friend is beaten, then lectured by him on how to treat a guest." } ]