[
 {
  "chunk": 255,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "After a proverb, the narrator describes a rough young man who has comfortably nursed an unrequited attachment for four years to a girl long since married.",
  "predicament": "A young man at the start of his career nurses an old unrequited attachment, enjoying the gloom more than he admits."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 256,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "He sees in a passing rickshaw the living image of his old love, a married woman visiting for the season, and decides to get to know her and pretend for a while.",
  "predicament": "A man meets a married woman who is the image of his lost love, and befriends her to relive the past."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 257,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "He contrives to see her constantly and deceives himself thoroughly: every look, gesture and tone is his old love's, though her nature is entirely different.",
  "predicament": "A man devotes himself to someone only because she resembles another, and wilfully deceives himself about what he is doing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 258,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "Bored by anything about her own life, he betrays himself; she asks why he attends her when he plainly does not care for her, and he blurts that he does not.",
  "predicament": "Pressed by a woman to explain his constant attentions, a man blurts out that he does not really care for her at all."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 259,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "She scornfully learns she is a lay-figure for his old love; the season ends and he goes back to work, but cannot tell which woman fills his thoughts.",
  "predicament": "Having used a woman as a stand-in for a lost love, a man can no longer tell which of them he thinks of."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 260,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "Her husband is transferred and she stays a week in the young man's station; he realises he has fallen for her, an honest married woman, and curses his folly.",
  "predicament": "A man realises he has fallen for a good, married woman he began courting only as a likeness, and curses his own folly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 261,
  "story": 31,
  "summary": "She gently turns aside his remarks and thanks him as one who knows it was all for the likeness; at the station he tells her he hopes never to see her face again, and she understands.",
  "predicament": "Loving a married woman who treats him kindly as a mere stand-in, a man parts from her hoping never to see her again."
 }
]