[
 {
  "chunk": 8,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator describes a marriage strained after a baby's death, and the arrival of a clever, mischievous society woman.",
  "predicament": "After a shared grief, a husband drifts away from a mourning wife, and a clever, mischievous rival begins to take an interest in him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 9,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The rival annexes the husband publicly; friends make sure the grieving wife hears; she keeps her own counsel and tells him to go to a ball without her.",
  "predicament": "Kind friends make sure a wife hears her husband is being openly courted by a rival, and she keeps her own counsel."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 10,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "Seeing he meant to go with the rival all along, the wife decides her living husband matters more than her grief and prepares a stunning dress in secret.",
  "predicament": "A wife who sees her husband slipping away to a rival quietly stakes everything on one evening's plan to win him back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 11,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "At the ball she outshines everyone and fills her card; the husband, dazzled, crosses the room to beg her for a dance.",
  "predicament": "A neglected wife appears at her best in public, and her wandering husband finds himself begging her for the favour of a dance."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 12,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "She strikes the rival's dances off his card with a pet name, and at supper he snubs the rival as if the mistake were hers.",
  "predicament": "A wife reclaims her husband in front of everyone, and he leaves the rival to take the blame for his own wandering."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 13,
  "story": 1,
  "summary": "The couple go home together; the defeated rival wryly admits that the silliest woman can manage a clever man.",
  "predicament": "A clever schemer who has lost the contest admits that a patient rival she underrated managed things better than she could."
 }
]