[ { "chunk": 86, "story": 10, "summary": "After a ballad epigraph, a young girl's parents make her marry a sickly, well-off officer some thirty-five years older.", "predicament": "Her parents make a young woman marry a well-off man thirty-five years older, though her heart is already given to someone else." }, { "chunk": 87, "story": 10, "summary": "She loved a poor man with no prospects; her mother broke the engagement by weeping, and he had himself transferred to the worst station he could find.", "predicament": "A young woman's engagement to a poor man is broken by a parent's tears, and he takes himself off to the worst post available." }, { "chunk": 88, "story": 10, "summary": "She falls ill and loses her looks; her husband mocks her plainness and neglects her; she learns her old love is coming up to the hills gravely ill.", "predicament": "A neglected wife, mocked by her husband for losing her looks, learns that the man she once loved is coming, gravely ill." }, { "chunk": 89, "story": 10, "summary": "Waiting in the rain for the coach, she finds him in it, dead, tied upright by the driver, and falls screaming into the mud.", "predicament": "A woman waiting in the rain to meet the man she once loved finds him arriving dead, and collapses in public." }, { "chunk": 90, "story": 10, "summary": "The narrator, the only witness, pays the driver, keeps her name out of it, and gets her away by force.", "predicament": "A bystander who stumbles on a woman's secret grief must get her away quietly before her name becomes part of the scandal." }, { "chunk": 91, "story": 10, "summary": "He tells the doctor she fell from her horse; she never speaks of that night, drifts about expecting someone, and dies at home two years later.", "predicament": "A bystander invents a cover story to protect a woman's reputation, and she never mentions the meeting or her loss again." } ]