[
 {
  "chunk": 178,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "Brook, fifteen years in the city, lets the cattle through the sliprails of his dead father's old selection, now let to a tenant, and feels contempt for the unhappy boy he was there.",
  "predicament": "A man who escaped a hard early life comes back for a visit and feels more contempt than pity for the youth he was."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 179,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "He studies Lizzie, the tenant's plain, grave niece, who watches without smiling as he struggles with the jammed rails and bangs his knee.",
  "predicament": "A visitor from the city, on holiday in the place he left, finds himself studying a plain and serious young woman there."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 180,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "Sitting on a log at dusk he tells her he leaves tomorrow, puts his arm round her and asks if she could love him.",
  "predicament": "A worldly visitor about to leave presses an inexperienced young woman to say that she could love him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 181,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "He kisses her, draws her behind a bush, and presses her until she promises to walk with him by moonlight, though she fears her aunt and parents would not like it.",
  "predicament": "A worldly man leaving soon presses an inexperienced young woman into a secret meeting she fears is wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 182,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "Next morning he helps her milk, though the work brings back the past he despises, and they kiss over the strainer in the dairy.",
  "predicament": "A man who despises the hard life he left joins in its chores for a few days, for a young woman's attention."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 183,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "After a week of moonlight walks he leaves by coach; she waves hopelessly and buries her face in her hands; he goes straight to a bar in the city, and they say she broke her heart.",
  "predicament": "A visitor who trifled with a young woman for a week goes back to his own life and leaves her heartbroken."
 }
]