[
 {
  "chunk": 163,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, an engineer left alone four years in an out-district does his work well but takes to secret, solitary drinking that ages him.",
  "predicament": "Left alone for years at a remote post with heavy work, a capable man privately takes to a drinking habit that nobody sees."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 164,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "Called to the hill capital to try for a vacant post, the nervous, handsome man cannot judge who is who and makes a goddess of a cold, worthless society woman.",
  "predicament": "Fresh from years of isolation, a man cannot judge who is who, and idealises a cold, worthless person as a paragon."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 165,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "His devotion is platonic; she treats him as her property; believing in her influence, he fights his secret drinking and keeps relapsing.",
  "predicament": "Believing an admired person's influence can save him, a man struggles in secret against a vice that keeps beating him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 166,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "He collapses into delirium tremens and for hours whispers out his soul, his worship of her and his shame.",
  "predicament": "A man's hidden weakness finally breaks out, and in his collapse he pours out everything he had kept locked away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 167,
  "story": 20,
  "summary": "Passed off as jungle fever, the attack is followed by his reform; he credits her influence, drops a friend who laughs at the idea, and later marries a far better woman.",
  "predicament": "Saved by his faith in someone who never deserved it, a man cuts off the friend who dares to laugh at that faith."
 }
]