[
 {
  "chunk": 287,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The story's subtitle, announcing it as a companion piece to the story of the great landscape garden.",
  "predicament": "A modest companion piece is offered to set beside a grander account of the same dream."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 288,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "On a walking trip the narrator loses his way at dusk in misty, winding country, unconcerned, and comes upon a carriage track of velvety grass, cleared of every twig, its stones deliberately placed.",
  "predicament": "A traveller who has lost his way at dusk stumbles on a path so carefully kept that someone must be tending it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 289,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "He sits and marvels that the lane is the work of an artist with a scrupulous eye, balancing neatness and wildness, then follows its winding course.",
  "predicament": "A lost traveller realises that the wild-looking country around him has been secretly shaped by a single careful hand."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 290,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Hearing water, he sees a building in a misty valley below; as the fog lifts piece by piece and the sun breaks through a cleft, the whole valley appears like a stage scene.",
  "predicament": "A traveller looking down into a hidden valley sees it revealed piece by piece, as if a curtain were rising."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 291,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "He describes the small valley: a granite cliff to the north, gentler slopes to the south, trees graded from wild to gentle, and three great trees, the finest a vast flowering tulip-tree.",
  "predicament": "An observer notices that everything in a secluded valley has been graded and arranged, down to the placing of each tree."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 292,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The valley floor is carpeted with the same velvety, miraculously green grass, and he cannot conceive how such beauty was achieved.",
  "predicament": "A traveller finds a hidden place so perfectly kept that he cannot imagine how anyone achieved it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 293,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "A stream runs through the valley into a perfectly clear lake where fish seem to float in air, with a flowering island joined by a single-plank bridge, and spills over a cliff towards the great river.",
  "predicament": "An observer notices that even the water in a private valley has been guided along a course someone chose."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 294,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "If there is any fault it is excessive neatness; potted plants are buried to look wild, sheep, deer and ducks roam under a watchful mastiff, and ivy and vines hide the cliffs.",
  "predicament": "A visitor sees that a place made to look natural is in fact tended down to its smallest detail, and guarded."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 295,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "A low wall and the cliffs enclose the domain, with a single gate the only way in or out; on a near-island in the brook stands a house of novel yet fitting design.",
  "predicament": "A visitor finds that a lovely valley has only one way in or out, and at its heart a house."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 296,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The cottage is utterly simple, its charm entirely in its composition, as if painted by a landscape artist; he will describe it from its best viewpoint.",
  "predicament": "An observer sees that a humble house has been placed and shaped by someone with a painter's eye."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 297,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "He describes the cottage's modest proportions: a main building and two small wings, steep curved roofs forming porches, a tall striped chimney, lozenge-paned windows.",
  "predicament": "An observer studies how a simple dwelling was built, looking for the secret of its effect."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 298,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "An outside staircase leads to a loft, stone slabs make paths through the turf, outhouses are hidden by trees, and a dead tree covered in blossom holds cages of songbirds.",
  "predicament": "An observer notes that everything unsightly around a house has been hidden, and even its captive birds are made decorative."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 299,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Jasmine and a rampant grape-vine climb the porch and roof; the grey shingles and pots of flowers melt into the greenery, best seen from the southern wall.",
  "predicament": "An observer sees how a house has been made to melt into the garden around it, as if it had grown there."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 300,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Having lost his road, he has an excuse to open the gate and ask the way; a huge mastiff bounds at him in silence but is won over by an offered hand.",
  "predicament": "A lost stranger uses his situation as an excuse to enter a private place, and must first win over its guard."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 301,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "A young woman of natural grace and unworldly, romantic eyes answers his knock and invites him in; he notes the vestibule and the study beyond.",
  "predicament": "A stranger at the door of a secluded house is welcomed by a woman whose unworldliness strikes him at once."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 302,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "He meets the owner, civil and cordial, but is more interested in the rooms: simple, graceful furniture and three fine lithographs, one of a beautiful, enigmatic face.",
  "predicament": "A guest in a stranger's house pays more attention to the rooms than to his host, trying to understand the mind behind them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 303,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Flowers are the only decoration; he says he means only to picture the house as he found it, and may tell another time how and why the owner made it.",
  "predicament": "A visitor who has seen a remarkable private world leaves its maker's story untold, for another time."
 }
]