[
 {
  "chunk": 61,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "Pooter wakes parched after dreaming the party was a failure; Carrie says champagne never agrees with him, and he insists he drank only port; he greets Lupin's hangover with a 'parachute' pun and they both roar.",
  "predicament": "A man who drank too much at his own party insists to his wife he barely touched it, then cheers himself with a pun."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 62,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "Gowing praises the party, then shouts in front of the servant that the blancmange is Wednesday's leftovers; the Pooters decline a slight acquaintance's wedding because it would mean a present, calling it a distaste for Society, and Lupin makes a cynical speech about weddings.",
  "predicament": "A couple decline a slight acquaintance's invitation, telling themselves they dislike society when they mainly dislike buying a present."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 63,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The leftover blancmange keeps reappearing, disguised with jam; Lupin and Frank burst in on Pooter's dominoes and chant a club ritual at his ignorance of their game; Lupin calls the blancmange 'second-hand goods'.",
  "predicament": "A father is ridiculed for his ignorance by his son and his son's friend, using a private ritual of their own set."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 64,
  "story": 9,
  "summary": "The Pooters reassure each other that early marriages can be happy and Pooter philosophises about the joys of early hardship; Lupin then enters theatrically, drinks neat whisky and forbids them ever to mention Daisy's name again.",
  "predicament": "Parents who had reconciled themselves to their son's imprudent engagement learn from his melodramatic outburst that it has been broken off."
 }
]