[
 {
  "chunk": 360,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The narrator, from a race of ardent fancy, allows that men call him mad and that madness may be the loftiest intelligence; he asks belief for his clear memories of youth and only doubt for his later life.",
  "predicament": "A man who has been called mad asks to be believed about his early life and doubted about what came after."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 361,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "He and his cousin lived alone with her mother in a hidden valley of many-coloured grass, walled by mountains and untouched by strangers, crossed by a silent river.",
  "predicament": "Two young people grow up entirely alone in a hidden place, knowing nothing of the world outside."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 362,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "He describes the valley's flowered grass and strange slanting trees, whose beauty spoke to them of the love and glory of God.",
  "predicament": "Two young people shut away from the world see the beauty of their hidden home as proof that they are blessed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 363,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "After fifteen years as companions, they fall in love one evening by the river; the valley blooms with new flowers, birds, fish and music, and a golden cloud shuts them in.",
  "predicament": "Two companions who grew up together fall in love, and their small enclosed world seems to transform around them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 364,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "His innocent, guileless cousin speaks of their love openly, but one day speaks in tears of death, and thereafter dwells only on that theme.",
  "predicament": "A young woman in the first happiness of love becomes preoccupied with the certainty of her own early death."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 365,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Dying, she grieves only that he will leave the valley and love another; he vows before Heaven never to marry, calling down a terrible curse if he breaks the vow; comforted, she promises to watch over him, and dies.",
  "predicament": "A young man swears to a dying beloved that he will never love another, and calls down a curse if he does."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 366,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "After her death, he says, his sanity grows doubtful; over the years the valley's flowers, birds, fish, music and golden cloud all fade and depart.",
  "predicament": "A man left alone after a beloved's death watches all the joy drain slowly out of the place they shared."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 367,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "She keeps her promise with perfume, sighs and once a spirit kiss, but the emptiness remains; at last the valley's memories pain him and he leaves for the world.",
  "predicament": "A bereaved man is still visited by signs of the one he lost, but cannot bear the emptiness and leaves."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 368,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "In a strange city's court the signs cease; a beautiful maiden arrives from afar, he falls into abject adoration of her, marries her without fearing the curse, and once more hears the familiar sighing voice.",
  "predicament": "A man who swore lifelong faithfulness to someone dead falls in love again, and waits to learn what his broken vow will cost."
 }
]