[
 {
  "chunk": 92,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, a clever, charming young officer from an obscure station wants to escape his regiment for a permanent appointment in the hill capital.",
  "predicament": "A clever, charming junior stuck in an obscure post wants a permanent, well-paid place near the top, and has no connections at all."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 93,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He forges the date on an invitation for a clever society woman who has been snubbed; grateful, she asks what she can do, and he asks her to get him a good appointment.",
  "predicament": "A clever junior does an influential woman a daring favour, and asks her in return to win him a good appointment."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 94,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "She weighs which great men she can work on, while a new viceroy's craze for official secrecy grips the government.",
  "predicament": "An influential woman sets out to win a post for her protege, while those at the top grow obsessed with keeping everything secret."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 95,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "The narrator explains that the government commits its most sensitive orders to paper and circulates them by hand.",
  "predicament": "Those at the top keep every decision secret on principle, down to the smallest appointment, and pride themselves that nothing ever leaks."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 96,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "A packet of confidential state papers, badly addressed, is delivered by a careless messenger to the society woman, who tears it open.",
  "predicament": "Through a careless mistake, confidential papers meant for someone else land in the hands of a clever outsider."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 97,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "She reads the secret papers and sees their value; the young officer arrives, they study them together, and he decides to aim at the intelligence or foreign departments.",
  "predicament": "Holding confidential papers they were never meant to see, a clever pair work out how best to use them for advancement."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 98,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "He calls on the most powerful man in government, quotes the secret notes from memory, and remarks that the last appointment went by favour; the man promises to see, then tries to block him.",
  "predicament": "A junior shows the most powerful person he can reach that he knows their secrets, and remarks that the last appointment went by favour."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 99,
  "story": 11,
  "summary": "After eleven days of uproar they give him the appointment to keep him quiet; the viceroy warns it is not done twice, and the woman reflects on what fools men are.",
  "predicament": "Unable to block him, those at the top give a troublesome junior the post he wanted, and warn him never to try it again."
 }
]