[
 {
  "chunk": 253,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Mrs Aspinall cleans offices, washes and nurses from dawn to dark to keep her sickly children, dreading the return of a husband supposed dead and buying off a loafing elder son.",
  "predicament": "A worn-out mother works every waking hour to keep her family, while the men who should help her only take from her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 254,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "In her spare time she sews new cuffs on gentlemen's shirts for a landlady who charges double; being called 'Misses' and respectable is the one thing she has left, and her house is falling down.",
  "predicament": "A woman doing piecework for someone who takes half the pay clings to her respectability as the one thing she has left."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 255,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Only after plaster falls and injures a child does the landlord agree to repairs; the agent had always said it was not his business, and the landlord has evicted fifteen-year tenants for six weeks' arrears.",
  "predicament": "A tenant whose home is falling down gets nothing from the people she pays but excuses, each saying it is not his business."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 256,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "The contractor's men botch the work and bill her; contractor, landlord and agent each refer her to another, and she is sued while her grocer and wood-man press her for the first time in years.",
  "predicament": "A woman billed for repairs she never ordered is passed from one person to the next until the whole debt lands on her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 257,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "The landlord refuses her; she gets sympathy but no help, and scorns the practical help of the brothel-keeper opposite; nobody considers that the landlord himself has been ruined in the crash.",
  "predicament": "A woman in trouble finds plenty of sympathy but no help, and refuses the one real offer from someone she thinks beneath her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 258,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Her greengrocer gives her credit; in the local court the magistrate greets the landlord, finds against her in a moment, and she is steered out into the crowd with no one to listen.",
  "predicament": "A poor woman sued by someone on good terms with the one judging loses in a moment and is hustled out unheard."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 259,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Billy Anderson, who worked with her dead son Arvie, recognises her outside the court and offers to walk her home.",
  "predicament": "A woman at her lowest meets a young man who once worked beside her dead son, and he offers to walk her home."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 260,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "She cannot afford the tram; she tells her troubles over and over while Bill repeats that it is red-hot, and admits her second husband ran off and is supposed dead.",
  "predicament": "A worn-out woman pours out her troubles to a sympathetic youngster, who listens patiently and asks what nobody else will."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 261,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Bill says his mother remarried for his sake and left him a stepfamily to support; he quit the factory because his stepfather waited for his pay, and now sells papers.",
  "predicament": "A youngster who quit underpaid work to escape a sponging stepfather can only fall back on work that pays nothing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 262,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "He lost his carting jobs when the banks failed and his boss went bankrupt, and the paper trade is overcrowded; he asks her why she does not go to the sister-in-law who keeps inviting her.",
  "predicament": "A friend asks a woman drowning in debt why she will not accept the refuge a relative keeps offering her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 263,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "She says the landlord would not let her take her furniture if she left; Bill offers to move her that night with a mate's cart and his push, for nothing, saying the landlord can do nothing.",
  "predicament": "A youngster offers to move a woman out by night before the one she owes can seize her goods, asking nothing back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 264,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "She hesitates over losing her few things, especially the ironing table, then agrees; at eight Bill arrives with his push, lounging by the window while one keeps watch.",
  "predicament": "A frightened woman decides to trust a young friend's plan to slip away with her few belongings before they are taken."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 265,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Chinny arrives with a bony horse and a spliced bottle-cart; the boys eagerly load the furniture, the ironing table upside down with the rest between its legs.",
  "predicament": "A band of rough youngsters turns out at night to help a woman in trouble, eager to lend a hand for nothing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 266,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "A policeman stands under the lamp opposite, apparently seeing nothing, an old Irishman who once resisted evictions himself; they go ahead, Bill carrying two of the children.",
  "predicament": "Helping a woman slip away from her debts, the helpers are watched by someone in authority who chooses to look the other way."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 267,
  "story": 44,
  "summary": "Chinny drags the horse and cart out of the gutter with the mangy dog behind; the push vanishes, and the policeman is already two blocks off, walking very straight the other way.",
  "predicament": "A night flight gets away quietly while the one person who could stop it walks steadily off in the other direction."
 }
]