[
 {
  "chunk": 13,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Cummings brings his wine-merchant friend Merton, who agrees the Pooters are no swells; Pooter declares they avoid Society because they do not care for it, and Merton flatters him into ordering a dozen whisky and promises free theatre passes anywhere in London.",
  "predicament": "A modest householder who claims to scorn fashionable society is flattered by a new acquaintance into buying drink on promised favours."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 14,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Carrie wants to treat her old school friend and her husband, the Jameses, to the theatre, so Pooter asks Merton for passes; Merton sends seats for a minor theatre along with his bill, and Mr James insists on paying the bus fares.",
  "predicament": "A man sets out to treat his wife's old friends to an evening out, relying on free tickets promised by a new acquaintance."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 15,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "At the theatre the passes are refused as out of date; while Pooter argues with the manager, James quietly pays for a private box for all four.",
  "predicament": "A host finds his free tickets refused at the door in front of his guests, and one guest quietly pays for better seats."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 16,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Pooter's clip-on tie falls into the pit and is trodden on, James remarks that his beard hides its absence, and Pooter spends the play with his chin down; next day he writes Merton a cutting letter and misspells 'appreciate' in it.",
  "predicament": "A host humiliated in front of his guests writes a cutting complaint to the acquaintance responsible, and misspells the very word that mattered."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 17,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Carrie proposes making it up to the Jameses with a card evening; Pooter takes up enamel paint and paints flower-pots, the servant's furniture, the coal-scuttle and at last the bath red, dismissing the servant's and Carrie's objections.",
  "predicament": "A husband seized by a home-improvement craze redecorates without asking his wife, and dismisses everyone else's opinion as bad taste."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 18,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Cummings drops in and sneers at Pooter's joke about being the dummy at whist; when Gowing arrives Pooter makes a pun on 'Gowing always coming and Cummings always going', and he and Carrie laugh until his chair breaks.",
  "predicament": "A host makes a pun on his two old friends' names and laughs at it until the chair gives way beneath him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 19,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Neither friend laughs; both take offence at a pun on their names and leave. At the office the cheeky junior Pitt apologises humbly, and an hour later Pooter is hit in the face by a ball of paper thrown by one of the clerks, who all look busy.",
  "predicament": "A senior's threat to report a cheeky junior brings a humble apology, and an hour later a missile from the juniors' desks."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 20,
  "story": 2,
  "summary": "Taking a very hot bath for a cold, Pooter sees his hand turn red and believes he is bleeding to death, until he realises the red enamel on the bath has dissolved; he resolves to have it repainted without telling Carrie.",
  "predicament": "A man whose home improvement has gone ridiculously wrong decides to hide it from his wife and have it quietly put right."
 }
]