[
 {
  "chunk": 269,
  "story": 33,
  "summary": "After an epigraph, the narrator describes a sleepy, good-natured doctor and his wife who withdraw entirely from station society after their marriage.",
  "predicament": "A newly married couple shut themselves away from the small community around them, content to need nobody else."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 270,
  "story": 33,
  "summary": "When typhoid breaks out his wife falls ill; he is too shy to ask for help for eight days, and a neighbour scolds him; the station nurses all its sick through, but she relapses and dies.",
  "predicament": "Having kept everyone at arm's length, a shy man waits too long to ask for help when his wife falls dangerously ill."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 271,
  "story": 33,
  "summary": "He does his duties perfectly but will not be comforted; colleagues urge leave, and he goes on a walking tour with his late wife's idle, thieving favourite servant.",
  "predicament": "Grieving, a man does his work perfectly but will not be comforted, and his colleagues gently urge him to take leave."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 272,
  "story": 33,
  "summary": "At a remote rest house the servant runs back in terror, saying he met the dead wife on the road and she sent word she would meet her husband next month at a distant town.",
  "predicament": "A frightened companion brings a grieving man a message from his dead wife, naming a distant place and a time."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 273,
  "story": 33,
  "summary": "The doctor walks the verandah all night; back at work, he tells an old friend the story, and a telegram arrives ordering him to that very town to fight cholera.",
  "predicament": "Just as a grieving man shrugs off a strange omen, orders arrive sending him to the very place it named."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 274,
  "story": 33,
  "summary": "He says he has not sought death but will not be sorry; the servant begs him not to go and quits; the doctor goes alone and dies there within eleven days.",
  "predicament": "Believing an order means his death, a man accepts it calmly and goes alone, while his frightened companion refuses to follow."
 }
]