[
 {
  "chunk": 215,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "While waiting in the top boss's library for answers to papers he brought, Torchy overhears the boss's daughter and a flirtatious southern school friend giggling over a secret romance.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior waiting at the boss's home overhears the family's young people whispering about a secret romance."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 216,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The friend says the handsomest man she ever saw is secretly arriving tonight; Torchy announces himself, and both girls coax him to help, blocking the door when he tries to leave on the grounds that he is there on company business.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior tries to excuse himself as there only on business, and the boss's daughter physically blocks his exit to enlist him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 217,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Flattered and promised protection from the secretary, Torchy listens as they explain: the friend was bored on a society yachting trip that broke down off a remote island.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is flattered by the boss's family into a private scheme, with a promise to square it at the office."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 218,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Ashore on the island she met a handsome, sun-tanned young man she took for a local fisherman and nicknamed after a Greek god.",
  "predicament": "A bored young woman of means is struck by a handsome stranger she takes for a humble local."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 219,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "She flirted with him for three days, and he said little about himself; his old uncle let them be, and she sailed away laughing, thinking she had left him heartbroken.",
  "predicament": "A flirt toys with a quiet stranger she thinks beneath her, then leaves, sure she broke his heart."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 220,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Back in society she found she could not forget him, so she sent the uncle money to visit the city and bring his nephew; they arrive this afternoon, and she cannot meet the train herself.",
  "predicament": "Someone who left a humble admirer behind finds she cannot forget him, and secretly sends for him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 221,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Torchy is sent to the station with expense money, finds the weathered uncle, and is shown the nephew, a gawky, open-mouthed country youth.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior sent to collect a much-praised guest finds him nothing like the glowing description."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 222,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Torchy is appalled but follows the plan: feed them, keep them busy, and bring them to a big society party where the friend can meet the nephew quietly.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior must shepherd an awkward pair of country visitors through the city and into a grand party."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 223,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Torchy lodges them in a cheap hotel and phones the daughter, who decides the nephew must wear evening dress and will send an old suit of her brother's.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior reports back and is told to make a rough country guest presentable for high society by evening."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 224,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Everyone laughs at the nephew's comic clothes at dinner; back at the hotel he refuses to wear the evening suit.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior escorting an awkward guest through public mockery has to talk him into clothes he hates."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 225,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "Torchy and the uncle wrestle him into the suit; at the theatre the uncle sits solemn, determined not to look like a greenhorn.",
  "predicament": "Someone forced into formal clothes for a grand occasion suffers them like armour, while his elder refuses to look impressed."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 226,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The nephew snores through the play and has to be dragged out; Torchy spends more expense money on a taxi to the grand house, where they are admitted as the daughter's guests.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior drags a half-asleep guest to a grand occasion, hoping he will somehow do on the night."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 227,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "The girls come down eager; the friend recognises the uncle but is horrified when Torchy points out the yawning nephew as her supposed island hero.",
  "predicament": "Someone finally sees the admirer she sent for and is horrified to find he is not the man she remembered."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 228,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "A handsome guest overhears and greets her; he is the real man from the island, a society painter the boss's daughter knows, who was only holidaying there and calls the old man uncle as all the summer people do.",
  "predicament": "Someone who thought she was courting a humble man learns he was of her own class all along."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 229,
  "story": 17,
  "summary": "She is mortified at what she called him, but he says it flattered him; they hold hands, and she tells Torchy to send the unwanted nephew off to bed.",
  "predicament": "When the misunderstanding clears, the humble guest brought all that way is simply sent home, and the junior has to tell him."
 }
]