[
 {
  "chunk": 57,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "Preparing their first important party, the Pooters hope Mr Perkupp might come; Lupin insists on a hired waiter and six bottles of champagne paid from a lucky City deal, which worries his father, and mocks Pooter's ordinary boots, while his new dress trousers prove too short.",
  "predicament": "A couple preparing their first important party hope the husband's employer might come, while their son pushes them into extravagance."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 58,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "Gowing greets Pooter at the door by jeering at his short trousers and calls him 'Juggins'; the guests arrive, Daisy in a low-cut crimson dress, Lupin's theatrical club friends pose and crack a table, and Daisy sings four songs badly at Lupin's insistence.",
  "predicament": "A host greeted at his own door by an old friend's jeer about his clothes watches his party taken over by his son's crowd."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 59,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "Gowing and Cummings gorge themselves and gulp the champagne; Lupin carries off the bottle Pooter was saving; while everyone shrieks at a clownish pantomime by Lupin and Frank, Pooter turns to find Mr Perkupp in the doorway, plainly not amused.",
  "predicament": "The employer arrives unannounced at a man's party in the middle of noisy horseplay, and is plainly not amused by it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 60,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "The supper table is stripped bare and even the soda-water is gone; Mr Perkupp graciously declines port, says he is pleased to see them at home, leaves after minutes and tells Pooter to come in late tomorrow; Pooter thinks the party a failure, Carrie says it was a success, and they dance.",
  "predicament": "A man has nothing left to offer his employer at his own party, and the employer kindly leaves after a few minutes."
 }
]