[
 {
  "chunk": 184,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "An unemployed man drags himself back to his boarding house at one on Saturday, asks hopelessly for letters, and says he has eaten when he has not.",
  "predicament": "A man out of work comes back to his lodgings after a fruitless week, hoping for news, and pretends he has eaten."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 185,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "A slovenly daughter is scrubbing his room, so he lies on the parlour sofa under the landlady's disapproval; he is two weeks behind, and her politeness has cooled.",
  "predicament": "A lodger who has fallen behind finds the politeness of the one he owes turning cold, however well he paid before."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 186,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "A sly child comes to tidy the parlour, so he takes his hat and goes out again, wishing he were upcountry or dead.",
  "predicament": "A man behind on what he owes is made unwelcome in the only home he has, and has nowhere else to rest."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 187,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "The landlady corners him in the passage for hours about her respectability, her boarders and her children, saying she could never be hard on a young man out of work.",
  "predicament": "A man who owes money must stand and listen for hours to the one he owes, because she has him cornered and knows it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 188,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "He was steered there by a furniture dealer who praised the landlady and took a commission; after paying in advance he found extras charged and food of the worst kind.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who paid in advance on a stranger's recommendation finds the promises were lies and the recommender was paid."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 189,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "A timid boarder tells the landlady he must leave because the place is too far from work, inventing excuses rather than the truth, while she gushes and asks him to send her new boarders.",
  "predicament": "A man who wants to leave a bad arrangement is too timid to say why, and invents polite excuses instead."
 }
]