[ { "chunk": 96, "story": 14, "summary": "Pooter frets over £20 he invested on Lupin's advice, as Cummings has too; a fortnight on, Gowing has not explained himself, and when Cummings calls they agree Gowing has behaved like a cad.", "predicament": "Two men left standing on an old friend's doorstep agree he has behaved like a cad, and wait to see if he will explain." }, { "chunk": 97, "story": 14, "summary": "Gowing breezes in, claims he posted a note cancelling the evening and puns about letters 'miscarrying'; Pooter's quip that he hopes Gowing will attend the next meeting sets everyone laughing. Lupin persuades Carrie to a Sunday drive in his trap, and Pooter comes along on the back seat.", "predicament": "An old friend who stood people up breezes in with a flimsy excuse and a pun, and is forgiven by the evening's end." }, { "chunk": 98, "story": 14, "summary": "Lupin drives recklessly, abuses pedestrians and chaffs a cartload of roughs who follow them pelting orange-peel; next day Pooter confides his worries about Lupin to Mr Perkupp, who kindly says the boy will steady down and wishes the firm had room for him.", "predicament": "A worried father confides his son's wild conduct to his employer, who kindly reassures him that the boy will steady down." }, { "chunk": 99, "story": 14, "summary": "Lupin gravely announces news that will 'distress' them: he has given up the trap, and Pooter, relieved, opens port; Gowing brings a pin-the-tail game. Lupin says Daisy has promised her father not to write; Frank Mutlar brings in a nervous, fat young swell, Murray Posh.", "predicament": "A father braced for bad news is so relieved his son has given up an extravagance that he opens the good wine." }, { "chunk": 100, "story": 14, "summary": "Gowing tactlessly asks Posh about his family's cheap hats; Posh talks at length about hat-making and plainly knows Daisy well, and Frank jokes that Posh will cut Lupin out; Lupin scorns jealousy and says Daisy would wait twenty years for him.", "predicament": "A son scorns any thought that a wealthy, dull rival could take his intended, sure she would wait twenty years for him." } ]