[
 {
  "chunk": 70,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator describes, with the prejudice of his day, a poor community of mixed descent living on the margins of colonial society.",
  "predicament": "People on the margins of a rigid social order guard small distinctions fiercely, and outsiders give offence without knowing how."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 71,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "A plain young woman works as a temporary children's nurse for a lady who calls her dirty and inattentive and never considers she has a life of her own.",
  "predicament": "A temporary helper is judged careless by the one she works for, who never considers that she has a life of her own."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 72,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "She squabbles with her mother over money; a sickly, proud young telegraph signaller courts her, and his government post makes her mother lenient.",
  "predicament": "A poor young man with a humble but secure post courts a proud family who value his position more than his background."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 73,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "The mother consents only if he earns fifty rupees a month, far beyond his prospects; the lovers swear fidelity and he is transferred to a remote office.",
  "predicament": "A young man may marry the woman he loves only if he somehow earns far more than his post will ever pay him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 74,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "At a forgotten coastal office, with the senior officials long absent, a riot breaks out and spreads through the town.",
  "predicament": "Posted alone to a forgotten outpost, a junior man hears that disorder is breaking out while everyone in authority is away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 75,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "His colleague flees, the local police ask him for orders, and though terrified he leads them out, fires on the mob and scatters it.",
  "predicament": "With everyone in charge absent and frightened men asking for orders, a lowly junior takes command of a crisis himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 76,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "Town elders relay the local magistrate's complaint that he acted unconstitutionally; he faces them down, but breaks into tears when the young official arrives next morning.",
  "predicament": "Having acted far beyond his authority, a junior faces down an offended rival authority, then breaks down in front of his real superior."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 77,
  "story": 8,
  "summary": "The official's report earns him a transfer on a salary big enough to marry; he could never repeat the deed.",
  "predicament": "A superior's report of a junior's courage in a crisis earns him the promotion he needed to marry, though he could never repeat it."
 }
]