{
 "groups": [
  {
   "id": "G01",
   "name": "Cheeked by younger colleagues",
   "predicament": "Younger colleagues with a fraction of your service answer you with cheek and laugh behind your back, and the employer may be watching.",
   "sentence": "A long-serving senior wants respect from the juniors from cheeky younger colleagues.",
   "actor": "long-serving senior",
   "wants": "respect from the juniors",
   "counterpart": "cheeky younger colleagues",
   "stories": [
    1,
    2,
    4,
    17
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 2: Tradesmen and the scraper still troublesome. Gowing rather tiresome wi",
    "Chapter 3: A conversation with Mr. Merton on Society. Mr. and Mrs. James, of Sutt",
    "Chapter 5: After the Mansion House Ball. Carrie offended. Gowing also offended. A",
    "Chapter 18: Trouble with a stylographic pen. We go to a Volunteer Ball, where I am"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 1
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 6,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A long-serving senior rebukes younger colleagues for lateness and is answered with open cheek by the newest of them."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 7,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A punctual senior is caught late on the one morning the employer checks, and the younger colleagues he scolded mock him openly."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 19,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A senior's threat to report a cheeky junior brings a humble apology, and an hour later a missile from the juniors' desks."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 36,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "After a younger colleague jeers at his clothes, a man buys the fashionable things the smarter young men at work are wearing."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 108,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A senior blamed by the employer for a noise is loudly named by a younger colleague, while his own son laughs nearby."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Remind them how many years you have served, and demand respect.",
     "source": "scene:6",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.juniors": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give them a look and say nothing.",
     "source": "scene:7",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Threaten to report them to the employer.",
     "source": "scene:19",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.juniors": "risk",
      "relationships.employer": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Buy the clothes they wear, so they have less to laugh at.",
     "source": "scene:36",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Laugh at yourself before they can, and get on with the work.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.juniors": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G02",
   "name": "A reward at work, and what it does at home",
   "predicament": "After years of steady service the employer singles you out for an honour or a rise, and how you carry it home decides what it is worth.",
   "sentence": "A long-serving man wants to be recognised from the employer.",
   "actor": "long-serving man",
   "wants": "to be recognised",
   "counterpart": "the employer",
   "stories": [
    3,
    13,
    22
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 4: The ball at the Mansion House.",
    "Chapter 14: Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two ",
    "Chapter 23: Lupin leaves us. We dine at his new apartments, and hear some extraord"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 2,
    "middle": 5
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 21,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A modest couple receive an invitation far above their usual station and are overjoyed, unsure even how to answer it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 22,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A man proud of a grand invitation learns his employer arranged it, and that a colleague he looks down on was asked too."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 87,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A long-serving man summoned by his employer fears the worst, and is told instead that his loyal years will be rewarded."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 88,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A man promised a reward at work waits in suspense, and when he finally goes to ask, the employer has half forgotten."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 90,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A man given a large rise after long, loyal service celebrates at home and tells his son how steady industry is rewarded."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 154,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A loyal man is offered, through a grand acquaintance, a chance to bring his employer more business than his son lost."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 155,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A loyal man who has brought his employer valuable business is thanked with a gift that secures his home for life."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Tell everyone at once, and send out for the good wine.",
     "source": "scene:90",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.spouse": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask the employer how to conduct yourself, and do exactly as told.",
     "source": "scene:22",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.employer": "+",
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Go and ask the employer what the reward is to be.",
     "source": "scene:88",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.employer": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Let your thanks go unspoken; he can see them.",
     "source": "scene:155",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.employer": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Bank the rise and change nothing at home.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "composure": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G03",
   "name": "Tradesmen and servants who show you no deference",
   "predicament": "A tradesman or a servant treats you as no better than they are, and you must decide how much respect to insist on.",
   "sentence": "A respectable householder wants the deference due to him from tradesmen and servants.",
   "actor": "respectable householder",
   "wants": "the deference due to him",
   "counterpart": "tradesmen and servants",
   "stories": [
    0,
    1,
    3,
    4,
    6,
    7,
    13,
    17,
    21
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 1: We settle down in our new home, and I resolve to keep a diary. Tradesm",
    "Chapter 2: Tradesmen and the scraper still troublesome. Gowing rather tiresome wi",
    "Chapter 4: The ball at the Mansion House.",
    "Chapter 5: After the Mansion House Ball. Carrie offended. Gowing also offended. A",
    "Chapter 7: Home again. Mrs. James’ influence on Carrie. Can get nothing for Lupin",
    "Chapter 8: Daisy Mutlar sole topic of conversation. Lupin’s new berth. Fireworks ",
    "Chapter 14: Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two ",
    "Chapter 18: Trouble with a stylographic pen. We go to a Volunteer Ball, where I am",
    "Chapter 22: Master Percy Edgar Smith James. Mrs. James (of Sutton) visits us again"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 10,
    "middle": 3
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 3,
     "story": 0,
     "predicament": "A respectable man who returns a tradesman's bad goods is insulted at his own door as someone not worth serving."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 5,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A tradesman whose custom was refused abuses a householder in front of the neighbours, and another talks him into a costlier job."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 12,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A man who claims a well-stocked cellar to refuse an old friend's offer is exposed when a servant brings in cheap drink."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 23,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A man dressed for the grandest evening of his life loses his temper with a delivery boy and ends up bruised and torn."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 25,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "At a grand reception a man is greeted with loud familiarity by a tradesman he employs, who turns out better connected than him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 27,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A man showing off his dancing at a grand event falls flat with his wife, and a tradesman he employs makes fun of him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 30,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A husband is told by his wife how he let a vulgar tradesman snub him in public and then fawned on him all evening."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 33,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A tradesman charges more to mend something than it cost new, and meets the customer's complaint with open insolence."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 48,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A householder's inquiry into a small household loss sets the servants and a tradesman blaming each other in a row on his doorstep."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 53,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A father comes home to a shouting match between the servants and his son swearing before his mother, and insists he is master here."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 92,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A master rebukes a servant for small carelessness, and she answers that he is always complaining and bursts into tears."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 115,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A man with no money for his fare is abused and manhandled, and the law standing by says he has only himself to blame."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 142,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A man demands compensation from a tradesman for spoiled goods, then learns they cost less than he was given and must refund the difference."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Stand on your dignity and take your custom elsewhere.",
     "source": "scene:3",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.tradesmen": "-",
      "money": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Lose your temper and box their ears.",
     "source": "scene:23",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "-",
      "standing": "-",
      "flags.lost_temper": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Declare you are master here and send them about their business.",
     "source": "scene:53",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.servants": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Pay what they ask, and call it a robbery.",
     "source": "scene:33",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.tradesmen": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Be civil and firm, and let the familiarity pass.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G04",
   "name": "A falling-out with an old friend",
   "predicament": "You and an old friend have fallen out, over a slight, a neglect or a liberty, and one of you will have to make the first move.",
   "sentence": "A old friend wants the friendship back, on his own terms from an aggrieved old friend.",
   "actor": "old friend",
   "wants": "the friendship back, on his own terms",
   "counterpart": "an aggrieved old friend",
   "stories": [
    1,
    4,
    13,
    14,
    17,
    22
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 2: Tradesmen and the scraper still troublesome. Gowing rather tiresome wi",
    "Chapter 5: After the Mansion House Ball. Carrie offended. Gowing also offended. A",
    "Chapter 14: Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two ",
    "Chapter 15: Gowing explains his conduct. Lupin takes us for a drive, which we don’",
    "Chapter 18: Trouble with a stylographic pen. We go to a Volunteer Ball, where I am",
    "Chapter 23: Lupin leaves us. We dine at his new apartments, and hear some extraord"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 7
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 10,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A man's friends lie their way in where he has been turned away, and leave him waiting outside for an hour."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 11,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A man slighted by his old friends ends up apologising to them himself, while telling himself he has generously forgiven them."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 31,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A man who improved an old friend's belonging without asking is told it was a treasured keepsake and called a fool."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 32,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A man buys an offended old friend a costly peace offering, then learns the friend never cared and the loss was trifling."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 93,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A man is reproached by an old friend who was seriously ill and says none of his friends came near him or asked."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 94,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "Guests arrive at an old friend's home as invited, find nobody expecting them, and are left on the doorstep by a stranger."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 95,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "An old friend who invited people round has gone off to a better invitation without a word, leaving them abused on his doorstep."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 96,
     "story": 14,
     "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,
     "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": 116,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "An old friend laid up again reproaches a man for never asking after him, while the man's son runs out laughing at his fall."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 149,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "An old friend reproaches the household once more that nobody came near him when he was ill, and produces the proof in print."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Write a letter so carefully worded that it apologises for you.",
     "source": "scene:11",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.friends": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Send a costly peace offering.",
     "source": "scene:32",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.friends": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Say nothing, and wait for them to come to you.",
     "source": "scene:10",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "relationships.friends": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take their flimsy excuse and laugh it off.",
     "source": "scene:97",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.friends": "+",
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Say plainly, once, what hurt you, and let it go.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.friends": "risk",
      "composure": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G05",
   "name": "Old friends who make free with your home",
   "predicament": "Old friends treat your home, your table and your good nature as their own, and bring their jokes and their acquaintances with them.",
   "sentence": "A householder wants to be treated as a host, not a convenience from old friends who take liberties.",
   "actor": "householder",
   "wants": "to be treated as a host, not a convenience",
   "counterpart": "old friends who take liberties",
   "stories": [
    0,
    5,
    10,
    12,
    17,
    21
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 1: We settle down in our new home, and I resolve to keep a diary. Tradesm",
    "Chapter 6: The Unexpected Arrival Home of our Son, Willie Lupin Pooter.",
    "Chapter 11: We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of a Mr. Pa",
    "Chapter 13: I receive an insulting Christmas card. We spend a pleasant Christmas a",
    "Chapter 18: Trouble with a stylographic pen. We go to a Volunteer Ball, where I am",
    "Chapter 22: Master Percy Edgar Smith James. Mrs. James (of Sutton) visits us again"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 6,
    "middle": 2
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 1,
     "story": 0,
     "predicament": "A contented householder tells his old friends to drop in whenever they like, and one of them only comes to complain."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 43,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "An old friend's boisterous prank at a party sends everyone tumbling, hurts the wife, and costs the husband an expensive ride home."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 66,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "Guests invite themselves back to a man's home, and an old friend brings along a stranger without asking or apologising."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 68,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A stranger an old friend brought uninvited returns alone, takes the best chair again, and the host cannot bring himself to object."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 70,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "An old friend coolly admits using a man's home to repay a stranger's hospitality, after making the man's wife laugh at him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 84,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A man confides a grievance to an old friend, who laughs that he did it himself and took the man's head for a wall."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 109,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "An old friend mocks the gift wine his host serves him, and somehow comes out ahead at cards though nobody else won."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 143,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "An old friend clowns through a solemn evening his host's household cares about, and the host suspects him of cheating."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Keep open house and put up with it.",
     "source": "scene:68",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.friends": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Speak your mind to the friend who brought the stranger.",
     "source": "scene:70",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.friends": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Tell them pointedly that you are engaged tomorrow.",
     "source": "scene:69",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.guests": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Threaten to end the evening if they cannot behave.",
     "source": "scene:143",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.friends": "-",
      "flags.put_foot_down": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Laugh with them, and let them be the hosts next time.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.friends": "+",
      "money": "+",
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G06",
   "name": "A joke nobody laughs at",
   "predicament": "You have thought of a joke you are sure is excellent, and the people you tell it to are busy, touchy or not listening.",
   "sentence": "A would-be wit wants a laugh from family and friends.",
   "actor": "would-be wit",
   "wants": "a laugh",
   "counterpart": "family and friends",
   "stories": [
    1,
    2,
    13,
    18,
    21
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 2: Tradesmen and the scraper still troublesome. Gowing rather tiresome wi",
    "Chapter 3: A conversation with Mr. Merton on Society. Mr. and Mrs. James, of Sutt",
    "Chapter 14: Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two ",
    "Chapter 19: Meet Teddy Finsworth, an old schoolfellow. We have a pleasant and quie",
    "Chapter 22: Master Percy Edgar Smith James. Mrs. James (of Sutton) visits us again"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 3,
    "middle": 3
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 8,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A man makes a small joke at an old friend's expense and is so delighted with it that he laughs half the night."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 9,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A husband calls his busy wife away to hear a pun and she tells him plainly it was not worth her time."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 18,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A host makes a pun on his two old friends' names and laughs at it until the chair gives way beneath him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 89,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A father repeats his little joke so that his grown son will laugh, and the son answers him with a sneer."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 120,
     "story": 18,
     "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": 144,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "An old friend's pun at a solemn gathering is met with silence, and he is sent to sit out in disgrace."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Tell it, and laugh loud enough for everyone.",
     "source": "scene:18",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.friends": "risk",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Repeat it, in case they missed it.",
     "source": "scene:89",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "-",
      "tact": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Enjoy it privately, and write it down.",
     "source": "scene:8",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take the silence in good part and sit out.",
     "source": "scene:144",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.friends": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep it to yourself: the moment is wrong.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.spouse": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G07",
   "name": "A mishap at the very moment of dignity",
   "predicament": "Just as you mean to impress or rebuke someone, a small accident of your own making turns you into the joke.",
   "sentence": "A man on his dignity wants to be taken seriously from the onlookers.",
   "actor": "man on his dignity",
   "wants": "to be taken seriously",
   "counterpart": "the onlookers",
   "stories": [
    0,
    2,
    6,
    7,
    10,
    11
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 1: We settle down in our new home, and I resolve to keep a diary. Tradesm",
    "Chapter 3: A conversation with Mr. Merton on Society. Mr. and Mrs. James, of Sutt",
    "Chapter 7: Home again. Mrs. James’ influence on Carrie. Can get nothing for Lupin",
    "Chapter 8: Daisy Mutlar sole topic of conversation. Lupin’s new berth. Fireworks ",
    "Chapter 11: We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of a Mr. Pa",
    "Chapter 12: A serious discussion concerning the use and value of my diary. Lupin’s"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 6
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 4,
     "story": 0,
     "predicament": "A man who means to impress an important visitor with his front entrance cannot get it open and must take him round the side."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 16,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A host humiliated in front of his guests writes a cutting complaint to the acquaintance responsible, and misspells the very word that mattered."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 47,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A man demands to know who destroyed his cherished private record, and his cutting retort is spoiled when he smashes a treasured gift."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 51,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A guest who tries to help his host's prized display along knocks it over, and the whole party turns on him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 71,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A man flattered that a lady of high standing stops to speak to him loses the moment chasing his hat through the mud."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 76,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "A customer who has just remarked on others' carelessness knocks over a costly display, and feels obliged to buy the damaged goods."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Carry on with your speech as if nothing had happened.",
     "source": "scene:47",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give up the moment rather than face them looking foolish.",
     "source": "scene:71",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.betters": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Pay for the damage, to show you are a gentleman.",
     "source": "scene:76",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Write a cutting letter about it afterwards.",
     "source": "scene:16",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "flags.cutting_letter": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Laugh at yourself first.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "standing": "+",
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G08",
   "name": "Keeping up appearances on a small income",
   "predicament": "The people you want to keep up with spend and dress as you cannot afford to, and there is a cheap way to seem as if you can.",
   "sentence": "A householder of modest means wants to look respectable from fashionable friends and acquaintances.",
   "actor": "householder of modest means",
   "wants": "to look respectable",
   "counterpart": "fashionable friends and acquaintances",
   "stories": [
    2,
    4,
    9,
    11,
    17
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 3: A conversation with Mr. Merton on Society. Mr. and Mrs. James, of Sutt",
    "Chapter 5: After the Mansion House Ball. Carrie offended. Gowing also offended. A",
    "Chapter 10: Reflections. I make another Good Joke. Am annoyed at the constant serv",
    "Chapter 12: A serious discussion concerning the use and value of my diary. Lupin’s",
    "Chapter 18: Trouble with a stylographic pen. We go to a Volunteer Ball, where I am"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 1
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 13,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A modest householder who claims to scorn fashionable society is flattered by a new acquaintance into buying drink on promised favours."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 37,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A couple spend on holiday finery to keep up with a fashionable friend, and then the lodgings they booked are given to others."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 62,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A couple decline a slight acquaintance's invitation, telling themselves they dislike society when they mainly dislike buying a present."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 77,
     "story": 11,
     "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": 110,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A couple dress in their best for a function they think fashionable, hoping to meet the employer, while their son says it is common."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Say you despise such things, which is cheaper than having them.",
     "source": "scene:13",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "standing": "risk",
      "flags.proud_of_plainness": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Decline the invitation, and call it a dislike of society.",
     "source": "scene:62",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.acquaintance": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Buy the finery to keep up.",
     "source": "scene:37",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Doctor the price so the present looks dearer.",
     "source": "scene:77",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "flags.faked_it": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Live plainly and say so without apology.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "standing": "-",
      "money": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G09",
   "name": "Playing the host beyond your means",
   "predicament": "You want to play the generous host, or treat someone who matters, and your purse, your house or your arrangements are not up to it.",
   "sentence": "A would-be host wants to treat them handsomely from the guests he wants to impress.",
   "actor": "would-be host",
   "wants": "to treat them handsomely",
   "counterpart": "the guests he wants to impress",
   "stories": [
    2,
    4,
    8,
    17
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 3: A conversation with Mr. Merton on Society. Mr. and Mrs. James, of Sutt",
    "Chapter 5: After the Mansion House Ball. Carrie offended. Gowing also offended. A",
    "Chapter 9: Our first important Party. Old Friends and New Friends. Gowing is a li",
    "Chapter 18: Trouble with a stylographic pen. We go to a Volunteer Ball, where I am"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 3
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 14,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A man sets out to treat his wife's old friends to an evening out, relying on free tickets promised by a new acquaintance."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 15,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A host finds his free tickets refused at the door in front of his guests, and one guest quietly pays for better seats."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 34,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A man impulsively invites a grander acquaintance home, and finds the door locked, no help in the house and nothing to eat."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 60,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A man has nothing left to offer his employer at his own party, and the employer kindly leaves after a few minutes."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 112,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A guest at a grand function generously helps everyone around him to food and wine, believing it is all provided free."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 113,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A man who played the generous host at a function is handed the bill for everyone's supper and cannot quite pay it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 114,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A man humiliated by an unexpected bill hides it from his wife so as not to spoil her evening."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Rely on a favour promised by a new acquaintance.",
     "source": "scene:14",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Invite them home on the spur of the moment, and improvise.",
     "source": "scene:34",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Help everyone lavishly, and trust that it is all provided.",
     "source": "scene:112",
     "moves": {
      "money": "risk",
      "relationships.guests": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Pay what you must, and hide the damage from your wife.",
     "source": "scene:114",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.spouse": "+",
      "flags.hid_the_bill": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Offer a plain evening you can afford, and say so.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "money": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G10",
   "name": "Out of your depth among your betters",
   "predicament": "You are a guest among people above your station, you know nobody, and every remark you make seems to be the wrong one.",
   "sentence": "A modest guest wants to pass muster from grander hosts and guests.",
   "actor": "modest guest",
   "wants": "to pass muster",
   "counterpart": "grander hosts and guests",
   "stories": [
    3,
    17,
    18,
    19,
    22
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 4: The ball at the Mansion House.",
    "Chapter 18: Trouble with a stylographic pen. We go to a Volunteer Ball, where I am",
    "Chapter 19: Meet Teddy Finsworth, an old schoolfellow. We have a pleasant and quie",
    "Chapter 20: Dinner at Franching’s to meet Mr. Hardfur Huttle.",
    "Chapter 23: Lupin leaves us. We dine at his new apartments, and hear some extraord"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 1,
    "middle": 7
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 24,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A couple at a grand reception above their station find that nobody there knows them, or the man who got them invited."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 111,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A couple arrive late to seem fashionable at a function far from home, find they know nobody, and welcome an acquaintance they dislike."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 118,
     "story": 18,
     "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,
     "predicament": "A guest in a grander house criticises a portrait to his host and learns that it shows the host's dead relative."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 121,
     "story": 18,
     "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": 123,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "A couple invited at the last moment to fill empty places at a wealthier man's dinner accept, since they cannot afford to offend him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 124,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "A modest guest at a distinguished dinner knows nobody, makes a tactless remark to his host, and sits silent while a celebrity talks."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 151,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "Parents dine at their son's new rooms and find the evening far grander than he warned them, wrongly dressed and fed late."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Accept every invitation from above: you cannot afford to offend.",
     "source": "scene:123",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.betters": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Arrive late, to seem fashionable.",
     "source": "scene:111",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Make conversation about what is in front of you, and hope it lands.",
     "source": "scene:119",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "-",
      "relationships.host": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Stay close to your wife and say little.",
     "source": "scene:24",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "+",
      "composure": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask your host about his things before you give opinions on them.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.host": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G11",
   "name": "Told your steady life is mediocre",
   "predicament": "Someone cleverer or richer tells you that your safe, respectable, modest life is the mark of a nobody.",
   "sentence": "A contented man wants to think his life worthwhile from brilliant or wealthy scorners.",
   "actor": "contented man",
   "wants": "to think his life worthwhile",
   "counterpart": "brilliant or wealthy scorners",
   "stories": [
    10,
    19,
    20,
    22
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 11: We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of a Mr. Pa",
    "Chapter 20: Dinner at Franching’s to meet Mr. Hardfur Huttle.",
    "Chapter 21: Lupin is discharged. We are in great trouble. Lupin gets engaged elsew",
    "Chapter 23: Lupin leaves us. We dine at his new apartments, and hear some extraord"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 1,
    "middle": 6
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 72,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A young man who scorns a respectable older man's steady working life writes to tell him their lives are worlds apart."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 125,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "A brilliant guest at a grand dinner mocks respectable middle ways, then turns and asks the modest man beside him to agree."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 126,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "A modest guest hears a celebrated talker sneer at exactly his kind of man and his clothes, and has no answer."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 128,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "A contented man tells himself he is happy because he is not ambitious, and hopes his son will follow in his steps."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 136,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A father whose son has prospered by defying everything he believes in is congratulated on the boy by his old friends."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 148,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A son moves out to rooms he can barely afford in a better district, telling his parents their neighbourhood is beneath him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 153,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A modest man hears that his son's rich friend could buy his employer's whole firm, and wonders for once if money is fairly shared."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Say you are not competent to offer an opinion.",
     "source": "scene:126",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "composure": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Refuse, in writing, to be drawn into the argument.",
     "source": "scene:69",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "relationships.acquaintance": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Tell yourself you are happy because you are not ambitious.",
     "source": "scene:128",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "flags.content": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Wonder, for once, whether money is fairly shared.",
     "source": "scene:153",
     "moves": {
      "flags.doubts": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Answer that a steady life is a choice, and say why.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G12",
   "name": "A tiff at home",
   "predicament": "You and your wife have flared up over something small, and each of you is sure the other started it.",
   "sentence": "A husband wants peace, and to be in the right from his wife.",
   "actor": "husband",
   "wants": "peace, and to be in the right",
   "counterpart": "his wife",
   "stories": [
    0,
    2,
    3,
    4,
    9,
    12
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 1: We settle down in our new home, and I resolve to keep a diary. Tradesm",
    "Chapter 3: A conversation with Mr. Merton on Society. Mr. and Mrs. James, of Sutt",
    "Chapter 4: The ball at the Mansion House.",
    "Chapter 5: After the Mansion House Ball. Carrie offended. Gowing also offended. A",
    "Chapter 10: Reflections. I make another Good Joke. Am annoyed at the constant serv",
    "Chapter 13: I receive an insulting Christmas card. We spend a pleasant Christmas a"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 8
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 2,
     "story": 0,
     "predicament": "A husband and wife each arrange the household's buying without consulting the other, and both orders turn up at the door."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 17,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A husband seized by a home-improvement craze redecorates without asking his wife, and dismisses everyone else's opinion as bad taste."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 26,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A man flattered to be introduced to a dignitary leaves his wife standing alone in the crowd, and she lets him know it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 28,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A husband suffering after a grand evening finds his wife coldly silent with him, and cannot see what he has done wrong."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 29,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A husband who expects an apology from his wife is instead called to account for his drinking and fawning at a grand event."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 35,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A husband and wife keep flaring into quarrels over nothing, and he avoids home for an evening and brings back a peace offering."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 61,
     "story": 9,
     "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": 86,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A husband and wife waiting up for their absent son quarrel over nothing and miss the moment they always kept together."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Insist you were in the right, calmly and at length.",
     "source": "scene:29",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Dine out, and leave a peace offering on her table.",
     "source": "scene:35",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.spouse": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Say it is merely a matter of taste.",
     "source": "scene:17",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Hold your tongue and let it pass.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "relationships.spouse": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Admit you drank more than you meant, and apologise.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G13",
   "name": "Nobody at home takes you seriously",
   "predicament": "Your wife, your son and your friends have stopped taking you seriously, and your opinions and pastimes are laughed at in your own house.",
   "sentence": "A head of the household wants to be listened to from his family.",
   "actor": "head of the household",
   "wants": "to be listened to",
   "counterpart": "his family",
   "stories": [
    5,
    11,
    18,
    21
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 6: The Unexpected Arrival Home of our Son, Willie Lupin Pooter.",
    "Chapter 12: A serious discussion concerning the use and value of my diary. Lupin’s",
    "Chapter 19: Meet Teddy Finsworth, an old schoolfellow. We have a pleasant and quie",
    "Chapter 22: Master Percy Edgar Smith James. Mrs. James (of Sutton) visits us again"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 3,
    "middle": 4
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 42,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A father's disapproval of his grown son's habits is overruled by his wife, and his peace offering is laughed at."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 74,
     "story": 11,
     "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,
     "predicament": "A man who hopes his private writings might one day be published is laughed at by his wife and his son."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 122,
     "story": 18,
     "predicament": "A man who tells his family and old friends about a vivid dream is snubbed by every one of them at once."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 139,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A husband tries to forbid a fashionable craze his wife's friend has brought into the house, and is outargued in his own parlour."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 140,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A husband who refuses to join his wife's new craze is simply left out, and spends the evening sitting apart."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 147,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A man made the butt of a friend's joke through his household's new pastime bans it, and declares he is master here."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Declare that you are master in this house.",
     "source": "scene:147",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "risk",
      "relationships.spouse": "-",
      "flags.put_foot_down": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Vow never to mention it again.",
     "source": "scene:122",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.family": "-",
      "composure": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Refuse to take part, and sit somewhere else.",
     "source": "scene:140",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give way, and treat them as they want to be treated.",
     "source": "scene:42",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Join in for once, on their terms.",
     "source": "scene:141",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "+",
      "composure": "+"
     },
     "in_group": false
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G14",
   "name": "A grown son who looks down on your life",
   "predicament": "Your grown son sneers at your name, your friends, your employer and your house, and still lives under your roof.",
   "sentence": "A father wants his son's respect from a scornful grown son.",
   "actor": "father",
   "wants": "his son's respect",
   "counterpart": "a scornful grown son",
   "stories": [
    5,
    7,
    9,
    11,
    12,
    20,
    22
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 6: The Unexpected Arrival Home of our Son, Willie Lupin Pooter.",
    "Chapter 8: Daisy Mutlar sole topic of conversation. Lupin’s new berth. Fireworks ",
    "Chapter 10: Reflections. I make another Good Joke. Am annoyed at the constant serv",
    "Chapter 12: A serious discussion concerning the use and value of my diary. Lupin’s",
    "Chapter 13: I receive an insulting Christmas card. We spend a pleasant Christmas a",
    "Chapter 21: Lupin is discharged. We are in great trouble. Lupin gets engaged elsew",
    "Chapter 23: Lupin leaves us. We dine at his new apartments, and hear some extraord"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 7,
    "middle": 3
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 38,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A grown son arrives home unannounced, drops the name he was christened with, and sneers at the respectable relative it honoured."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 39,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A grown son lies in bed past dinner, calls his employer a cad, and announces he has thrown up his post."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 50,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A grown son announces an engagement without consulting his parents, and sneers at the post his father's employer found him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 55,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A son anxious to impress his intended finds fault with his parents' party and sneers at their old friends as common."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 63,
     "story": 9,
     "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": 78,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "A father who runs down his son's former sweetheart hears the son call his revered employer an inflated fool."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 81,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A son asks his father to put off old friends so his intended can visit, and the mother asks who is not good enough."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 132,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A son who cost his father's employer its best client calls the employer a fool and insists he has done no harm."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 135,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A loyal man's son, hired by a rival firm at a handsome salary, urges his father to leave his stagnant employer too."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 150,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A father hiding from a grand caller finds it is only his son, who mocks him and sends him out to hold the horse."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Tell him plainly that beggars cannot be choosers.",
     "source": "scene:50",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Leave the room with silent dignity.",
     "source": "scene:78",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "relationships.child": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Say nothing, for fear of setting him off.",
     "source": "scene:38",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Let his mother put him in his place.",
     "source": "scene:81",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "+",
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Defend your employer and your friends to his face.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.employer": "+",
      "relationships.child": "risk",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G15",
   "name": "A grown son's unwise match",
   "predicament": "Your grown son has set his heart on someone you think wrong for him, and every word you say against it binds him closer.",
   "sentence": "A father wants his son safely matched from a son in love, and the one he loves.",
   "actor": "father",
   "wants": "his son safely matched",
   "counterpart": "a son in love, and the one he loves",
   "stories": [
    7,
    9,
    14,
    22
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 8: Daisy Mutlar sole topic of conversation. Lupin’s new berth. Fireworks ",
    "Chapter 10: Reflections. I make another Good Joke. Am annoyed at the constant serv",
    "Chapter 15: Gowing explains his conduct. Lupin takes us for a drive, which we don’",
    "Chapter 23: Lupin leaves us. We dine at his new apartments, and hear some extraord"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 3,
    "middle": 3
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 54,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A father meets the woman his young son means to marry and is dismayed to find her much older than the boy."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 56,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A father who loses his temper over his son's engagement is told the son will leave forever, and he is back by supper."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 64,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "Parents who had reconciled themselves to their son's imprudent engagement learn from his melodramatic outburst that it has been broken off."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 100,
     "story": 14,
     "predicament": "A son scorns any thought that a wealthy, dull rival could take his intended, sure she would wait twenty years for him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 152,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "Parents watch their son flirt openly with his host's wife, while the wealthy host treats them kindly and praises the boy."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 156,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A father who sent his son a stern warning about his conduct gets a breezy reply announcing a surprise engagement."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Tell him exactly what you think of the match.",
     "source": "scene:56",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "-",
      "flags.spoke_against_match": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep your dismay to yourself and be civil to them.",
     "source": "scene:54",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "relationships.child": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Write him a stern warning about his conduct.",
     "source": "scene:156",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "risk",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Let him find out for himself.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "+",
      "composure": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G16",
   "name": "Placing a son who throws his places away",
   "predicament": "Your grown son has lost another post, and the only way to place him again is to spend your own good name with people who matter.",
   "sentence": "A father with a steady record wants his son settled from the employer and other firms.",
   "actor": "father with a steady record",
   "wants": "his son settled",
   "counterpart": "the employer and other firms",
   "stories": [
    5,
    6,
    14,
    16
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 6: The Unexpected Arrival Home of our Son, Willie Lupin Pooter.",
    "Chapter 7: Home again. Mrs. James’ influence on Carrie. Can get nothing for Lupin",
    "Chapter 15: Gowing explains his conduct. Lupin takes us for a drive, which we don’",
    "Chapter 17: Marriage of Daisy Mutlar and Murray Posh. The dream of my life realise"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 3,
    "middle": 4
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 40,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A father who orders his son to withdraw a resignation learns the son was in fact dismissed for idleness."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 44,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A father writes to firm after firm seeking a place for his dismissed grown son, and every one of them has nothing."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 49,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A father whose employer has found his idle son a post breaks the news over good wine, and the son barely acknowledges it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 98,
     "story": 14,
     "predicament": "A worried father confides his son's wild conduct to his employer, who kindly reassures him that the boy will steady down."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 105,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A father's long-held dream comes within reach when his employer asks him to bring his wayward son in to be seen."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 106,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A father whose employer takes his son into the firm can only stammer his thanks, and is told he is the example to follow."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 107,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A father whose son has joined him at work lies awake imagining them sharing everything, from the daily journey to the garden."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Write to every firm you know.",
     "source": "scene:44",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask your own employer to take him on.",
     "source": "scene:105",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.employer": "risk",
      "relationships.child": "+",
      "flags.vouched_for_son": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Confide your worries about him to the employer.",
     "source": "scene:98",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.employer": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Order him to withdraw his resignation and apologise.",
     "source": "scene:40",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Leave him to find his own place.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "-",
      "relationships.employer": "+",
      "money": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G17",
   "name": "Left to answer for your son",
   "predicament": "Your grown son has wronged or embarrassed someone, and it falls to you to face them, explain him or disown him.",
   "sentence": "A father wants to keep his own good name from the people his son has wronged.",
   "actor": "father",
   "wants": "to keep his own good name",
   "counterpart": "the people his son has wronged",
   "stories": [
    5,
    12,
    15,
    20,
    21
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 6: The Unexpected Arrival Home of our Son, Willie Lupin Pooter.",
    "Chapter 13: I receive an insulting Christmas card. We spend a pleasant Christmas a",
    "Chapter 16: We lose money over Lupin’s advice as to investment, so does Cummings. ",
    "Chapter 21: Lupin is discharged. We are in great trouble. Lupin gets engaged elsew",
    "Chapter 22: Master Percy Edgar Smith James. Mrs. James (of Sutton) visits us again"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 2,
    "middle": 6
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 41,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A father dodges an old friend's awkward question about his son's dismissal, and the son is ashamed to be seen with him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 85,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A father receives a letter from his son's prospective father-in-law banning the son from his house, and keeps it to himself."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 103,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "A son and an old friend escape through a window from a man ruined by their tip, leaving the father to face him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 129,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A long-serving man learns his son has driven the firm's most valued client to a rival, and must face his employer about it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 130,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A loyal man whose son has damaged the firm is assured of his employer's complete trust and asked to help repair it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 131,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "The employer asks a loyal man to write privately to a lost client, disowning his own son's conduct as if unprompted."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 134,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A father's careful appeal on his employer's behalf is answered in a few curt lines saying his son showed more sense than the firm."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 137,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A guest kicked by his hosts' spoilt child objects, and the mother retorts that his own son is no model either."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Change the subject.",
     "source": "scene:41",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.friends": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep the complaint to yourself.",
     "source": "scene:85",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "risk",
      "composure": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Disown what he did, in writing.",
     "source": "scene:131",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.employer": "+",
      "relationships.child": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Console the injured party yourself.",
     "source": "scene:103",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.friends": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Defend him: he is only a boy.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "+",
      "relationships.employer": "-",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G18",
   "name": "Your son's fast money",
   "predicament": "Your grown son has found an easy road to money, and wants you to spend, invest or rejoice on the strength of it.",
   "sentence": "A careful father wants to keep what he has from a son with a sure thing.",
   "actor": "careful father",
   "wants": "to keep what he has",
   "counterpart": "a son with a sure thing",
   "stories": [
    8,
    13,
    14,
    15
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 9: Our first important Party. Old Friends and New Friends. Gowing is a li",
    "Chapter 14: Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two ",
    "Chapter 15: Gowing explains his conduct. Lupin takes us for a drive, which we don’",
    "Chapter 16: We lose money over Lupin’s advice as to investment, so does Cummings. "
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 1,
    "middle": 4
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 57,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A couple preparing their first important party hope the husband's employer might come, while their son pushes them into extravagance."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 91,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A father's reward for long years of steady work is outshone the same evening by his son's windfall from speculation."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 99,
     "story": 14,
     "predicament": "A father braced for bad news is so relieved his son has given up an extravagance that he opens the good wine."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 101,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "A father who invested on his son's confident tip learns the shares have collapsed, and at first mistakes his loss for a profit."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 102,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "A father learns his son risked none of his own money on the tip he urged on everyone, and a friend offloaded his share."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Put your savings in on his tip.",
     "source": "scene:101",
     "moves": {
      "money": "risk",
      "relationships.child": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Let him pay for the show, and worry quietly.",
     "source": "scene:57",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "risk",
      "relationships.child": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Tell him to his face that speculation is horrifying.",
     "source": "scene:91",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "-",
      "composure": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask what he has risked himself before you risk a penny.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "money": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G19",
   "name": "Your son's friends take over your home",
   "predicament": "Your grown son's young friends have taken over your home with their own jokes and manners, and treat you as a fossil in your own chair.",
   "sentence": "A householder and father wants his house back from his son's set.",
   "actor": "householder and father",
   "wants": "his house back",
   "counterpart": "his son's set",
   "stories": [
    7,
    8,
    10,
    12
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Chapter 8: Daisy Mutlar sole topic of conversation. Lupin’s new berth. Fireworks ",
    "Chapter 9: Our first important Party. Old Friends and New Friends. Gowing is a li",
    "Chapter 11: We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of a Mr. Pa",
    "Chapter 13: I receive an insulting Christmas card. We spend a pleasant Christmas a"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 8
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 52,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A son's new friend, brought home to amuse his parents, outstays his welcome by hours and then leads the son out at midnight."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 58,
     "story": 8,
     "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,
     "predicament": "The employer arrives unannounced at a man's party in the middle of noisy horseplay, and is plainly not amused by it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 65,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A son brings home a self-important friend who monopolises the evening and corrects his host on how to address him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 67,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A host finds his home taken over by a young guest's performances and a stranger who sits in the best chair laughing."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 69,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A young guest tells his older host, in his own home, to confine himself to talking about what he understands."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 73,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A father shows his son an insolent letter from the son's friend, and the son replies that the father should apologise."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 82,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A host's supper descends into horseplay led by his son's set, and his own old friends join in pelting him."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Drop hints that it is late, and wait.",
     "source": "scene:52",
     "moves": {
      "composure": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Rise and insist the foolery stops at once.",
     "source": "scene:82",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "risk",
      "relationships.child": "-",
      "flags.put_foot_down": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask them to stay to supper, to keep your son at home.",
     "source": "scene:65",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.child": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Show your son what his friend wrote of you, and expect him to take your side.",
     "source": "scene:73",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.child": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Leave the young ones to it and see your own friends elsewhere.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.child": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "unassigned": [
  0,
  20,
  45,
  46,
  79,
  80,
  83,
  104,
  117,
  127,
  133,
  138,
  141,
  145,
  146
 ]
}