[
 {
  "chunk": 44,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Home again, firm after firm writes that it has no vacancy for Lupin; Pooter buys plaster stags' heads to give the hall style; Mrs James comes to stay and talks dress with Carrie for hours; the new neighbours' friends are rowdy.",
  "predicament": "A father writes to firm after firm seeking a place for his dismissed grown son, and every one of them has nothing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 45,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The neighbours' visitors sing a mocking song at Pooter and throw a cracker at his hat; Mrs James fills Carrie's head with fashion; at a supper where Pooter is to refuse the salmon so it goes round, Lupin sneers at the card game and leaves the table.",
  "predicament": "A respectable householder is mocked by the rowdy visitors next door, who sing at him and throw a cracker at his hat."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 46,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Lupin plays a joke on Gowing that Pooter enjoys, but everyone laughs all evening at something unexplained, which turns out to be an antimacassar hanging from Pooter's coat-tails; Carrie appears in a smock-dress on Mrs James's advice; weeks later Pooter finds pages torn from his diary.",
  "predicament": "A man laughs along with a roomful of guests all evening, not knowing that the joke is something hanging from his own coat."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 47,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Carrie says the lost diary pages are his own fault; his smart retort is spoiled when he knocks over and smashes a wedding-present vase. The servant blames the charwoman, who denies touching the book; meanwhile Mr Perkupp writes that he may have a place for Lupin.",
  "predicament": "A man demands to know who destroyed his cherished private record, and his cutting retort is spoiled when he smashes a treasured gift."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 48,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The charwoman blames the sweep; the sweep, too polite to rebuke, blames the servant, who rows with him on the soot-covered front steps; Lupin, given a latch-key, is never home.",
  "predicament": "A householder's inquiry into a small household loss sets the servants and a tradesman blaming each other in a row on his doorstep."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 49,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Lupin crashes in after midnight, ignores his parents and dances noisily in his room; Mr Perkupp secures him an appointment, and Pooter breaks the news over a special bottle of port, to which Lupin says only 'Good biz!'",
  "predicament": "A father whose employer has found his idle son a post breaks the news over good wine, and the son barely acknowledges it."
 }
]