[ { "chunk": 225, "story": 27, "summary": "The verse epigraph alone: a Diana who stays forever fresh and fair while the years pass and everyone offers her praise.", "predicament": "Someone admired for never seeming to age goes on receiving everyone's praise while the years pass unacknowledged." }, { "chunk": 226, "story": 27, "summary": "A woman of the hill capital who never seems to age has become an institution; every young man is expected to worship her, and she keeps young people about her.", "predicament": "An admired older woman who has made youth her habit is surrounded by young admirers and never has to face her age." }, { "chunk": 227, "story": 27, "summary": "A very young officer adores her too earnestly and demands too much; she checks him sternly, though he reminds her of a lad who loved her twenty-three years before.", "predicament": "An overeager young admirer demands too much of an older woman's attention, and she kindly but firmly holds him off." }, { "chunk": 228, "story": 27, "summary": "He is openly miserable; his fellow officers make his life a burden; everyone pities him and agrees it is not her fault.", "predicament": "A young man's open infatuation makes him a target for his colleagues' teasing, and everyone around pities him for it." }, { "chunk": 229, "story": 27, "summary": "When he mentions his father is coming, she tells him she has a nineteen-year-old daughter arriving; his father arrives and is told at once how his son has been behaving.", "predicament": "An infatuated young man learns the woman he adores has a grown daughter, and his father arrives already hearing the gossip." }, { "chunk": 230, "story": 27, "summary": "The father tells him to cut his leave short; they call on her, and the father recognises her as the woman he worshipped long ago, while the son struggles to talk to her poised daughter.", "predicament": "A young man's father turns out to have adored the same woman long ago, and the son realises how foolish he has looked." } ]