[ { "chunk": 74, "story": 11, "summary": "With Lupin's engagement broken off, the house is gloomy; Pooter reads Carrie extracts from his diary and she walks out, later admitting she was not listening because of Lupin's shirts; Pooter complains that everything is Lupin, and notes his friends rarely call now.", "predicament": "A husband reads his wife his cherished writing and finds she was not listening, because everything in the house now turns on the son." }, { "chunk": 75, "story": 11, "summary": "Lupin is impossible about Daisy; when Pooter says the diary might one day be published, Carrie and Lupin burst out laughing, Carrie apologising and Lupin jeering it might fetch a price from a butterman as wrapping paper.", "predicament": "A man who hopes his private writings might one day be published is laughed at by his wife and his son." }, { "chunk": 76, "story": 11, "summary": "Lupin refuses to come to the family Christmas with a gloomy speech about snivelling relations; in a crowded card shop Pooter remarks on customers' carelessness and at once knocks over a pile of expensive boxed cards, and under the manager's pointed look feels obliged to buy some.", "predicament": "A customer who has just remarked on others' carelessness knocks over a costly display, and feels obliged to buy the damaged goods." }, { "chunk": 77, "story": 11, "summary": "Pooter finds a vulgar card among those he bought; Carrie remarks that going into Society means sending two dozen cards; Lupin advises his father to alter the pencilled prices on the backs so people think he paid five times as much.", "predicament": "A son advises his father to alter the prices on cheap gifts so that the recipients think he paid five times as much." }, { "chunk": 78, "story": 11, "summary": "Pooter tells a despondent Lupin he is well rid of Daisy, and Lupin retorts she is worth all his father's friends including 'that inflated sloping-head' Perkupp; Pooter leaves with dignity and trips on the mat; two days later Lupin announces the engagement is on again.", "predicament": "A father who runs down his son's former sweetheart hears the son call his revered employer an inflated fool." } ]