[
 {
  "chunk": 118,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "An old schoolfellow, Teddy Finsworth, hails Pooter in the street, boasts that his provincial post is grander than any in London, and presses the Pooters to Sunday dinner at his well-to-do uncle's; Carrie is reluctant but they accept and cancel their own joint.",
  "predicament": "A man is hailed by an old schoolfellow who boasts of his own importance and presses him to dine with grander relations."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 119,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "They arrive hot and late and the collie muddies Carrie's new skirt; the uncle shows off pictures bought cheap that he has been told are valuable, and Pooter remarks that the face in a crayon portrait looks pinched, to learn it was drawn after death of the host's sister-in-law.",
  "predicament": "A guest in a grander house criticises a portrait to his host and learns that it shows the host's dead relative."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 120,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Pooter then jokes about a jolly portrait, which is of the host's dead brother; he makes a pun on the name of a late guest, Mr Short, repeating it twice with a little laugh, and nobody sees it; Short proves coarse, and the hostess says he is 'privileged'.",
  "predicament": "A guest makes a pun on a stranger's name, repeats it twice with a little laugh, and nobody at all sees the joke."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 121,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Under the table one dog snaps at Pooter's boots and another licks all the blacking off them, which the hostess says it always does to visitors; port on beer makes him sleepy, his school reminiscences send everyone to sleep, and people giggle at his dull boots on the way home.",
  "predicament": "A guest in a grander house is harassed by the family's pets, and the hostess says they always do that to visitors."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 122,
  "story": 18,
  "summary": "Pooter tells Lupin, Gowing, Cummings and Carrie about a vivid dream of burning ice; Lupin calls it rot, Gowing says nothing is duller than other people's dreams, Cummings agrees, Carrie says he tells her one every morning, and they all roar; he vows never to tell another.",
  "predicament": "A man who tells his family and old friends about a vivid dream is snubbed by every one of them at once."
 }
]