[ { "chunk": 37, "story": 4, "summary": "After a proverb, a shiftless young man sails out to a plantation job his uncle found him, vowing to reform, save his salary and come back to marry his tearful sweetheart.", "predicament": "A shiftless young man is packed off to a distant post a relative arranged, vowing to reform, save money and return to marry." }, { "chunk": 38, "story": 4, "summary": "Weak and extravagant but likeable, he works passably and credits himself for it, while his sweetheart's family objects to the engagement.", "predicament": "A weak young man at a distant post works adequately and congratulates himself, while his sweetheart's family objects to the match." }, { "chunk": 39, "story": 4, "summary": "He forgets her for weeks at a time; under family pressure she marries an eligible suitor and writes him a stormy letter.", "predicament": "Pressed by her family and neglected by an absent sweetheart, a young woman marries the eligible suitor instead and declares herself heartbroken." }, { "chunk": 40, "story": 4, "summary": "He writes an eight-page letter of eternal constancy that he half feels for two days; she cries over it and keeps it.", "predicament": "A man jilted by a sweetheart he had half forgotten writes a grand letter of eternal devotion that he does not really feel." }, { "chunk": 41, "story": 4, "summary": "Living comfortably and saving nothing, he drops his correspondents at home one by one and meets a shrewd, handsome young woman.", "predicament": "A man who has let himself drift at a distant post drops his old ties one by one and stops meaning to return." }, { "chunk": 42, "story": 4, "summary": "He marries her and settles down; she knows his weaknesses and manages him tenderly.", "predicament": "A weak man settles down by marrying a shrewd, capable woman who manages him kindly and knows his failings exactly." }, { "chunk": 43, "story": 4, "summary": "Widowed and rich, his old sweetheart rereads his letter, sets out to offer him her hand and fortune, and finds him little altered and married.", "predicament": "A widow sets out to claim the old sweetheart who swore eternal devotion, and finds him long since married to someone else." } ]