[
 {
  "chunk": 72,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "A pretty woman from a family of clerks, married to a minor clerk, suffers constantly over her shabby flat and dreams of rich rooms, footmen and admiring men.",
  "predicament": "A pretty woman of modest means feels she was born for luxury and is tormented by the plainness of her life."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 73,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "She dreams of fine dinners while her husband relishes his soup, and avoids her rich school friend out of envy; when he proudly brings home an invitation to an official ball, she throws it down.",
  "predicament": "A woman who avoids a richer friend out of envy is handed a coveted invitation and flings it aside in resentment."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 74,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "She weeps that she has no gown, then calculates the largest sum she can ask without a refusal; her husband quietly gives up the savings he meant for a hunting gun.",
  "predicament": "A woman afraid of looking poor at a grand occasion asks her spouse for money he had saved for his own small pleasure."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 75,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "With the gown ready she frets that she has no jewels and would rather not go than look poor; her husband suggests her rich friend, who lets her choose, and she falls for a diamond necklace.",
  "predicament": "Unwilling to look poor among the rich, a woman borrows a costly ornament from a wealthier friend to wear."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 76,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "She is the success of the ball, courted by everyone; at four in the morning, ashamed of her shabby wraps beside the other women's furs, she hurries out before her husband can find a cab.",
  "predicament": "A woman who shone at a grand occasion in borrowed finery hurries away so no one sees her shabby everyday coat."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 77,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Home in a shabby cab, she finds the necklace gone; they search everywhere, neither took the cab's number, and her husband walks the route until dawn in vain.",
  "predicament": "A woman who borrowed a friend's valuable finds it gone after a night out, and must decide what to tell the owner."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 78,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "After a week's search they write to the friend that the clasp is being mended, then hunt the jewellers for a match and find one for thirty-six thousand francs, half of it borrowed.",
  "predicament": "A couple who lost a borrowed valuable stall the owner with a lie and resolve to replace it at any cost."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 79,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "He mortgages the rest of his life to usurers; the friend takes the replacement coolly without opening it; they dismiss the maid, move to a garret, and she learns the drudgery of the poor.",
  "predicament": "Rather than confess a loss to a friend, a couple ruin themselves secretly replacing it and sink into hard poverty."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 80,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "After ten years of night work and haggling they have paid everything, and she has grown coarse and old; meeting her still-lovely friend in the park, she decides to tell her the whole story.",
  "predicament": "A woman worn out by years of paying for a hidden loss meets the friend who never knew, and decides to tell her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 81,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "She proudly explains that she replaced the lost necklace and it took ten years to pay; her friend, moved, tells her the original was paste worth five hundred francs at most.",
  "predicament": "A woman proudly confesses the ruinous sacrifice she made to hide a loss, and learns the thing was never worth it."
 }
]