[
 {
  "chunk": 425,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "At the wedding of Mr. Robert's goddaughter, her lively mother openly says she is glad it is over, and the groom looks most relieved of all after a tangled courtship.",
  "predicament": "A family sighs with relief as a spoiled young woman is finally married off after a long, tangled courtship."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 426,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "The bride was a beautiful, prankish girl juggling several suitors; the rich, idle groom, then half-engaged to her school friend, fell for her at first sight and rushed her with his racing car and dancing.",
  "predicament": "A rich young man drops his near-fiancée on sight for her beautiful, fickle friend and courts the friend headlong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 427,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "She hesitated over his ring while keeping two other suitors busy in turns, and her mother and Mr. Robert laughed it off, since she was barely nineteen.",
  "predicament": "A fickle young woman keeps several suitors dangling at once while the older people around her treat it as a joke."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 428,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "Her father called the suitor an impudent puppy and her mother wept; the girl sulked for a week, then agreed only when a friend described a romantic lawn wedding, and set the date for two weeks later.",
  "predicament": "A spoiled young woman agrees to marry not from love but because a friend describes the wedding party she could have."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 429,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "Two weeks later the mother comes in tearful; Mr. Robert tells Torchy the couple changed plans on the bride's whim and are alone at a remote mountain lodge.",
  "predicament": "The boss's relative calls someone junior in about an embarrassing family matter, clearly unsure how much to reveal."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 430,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "The bride has written home that she is wretched and her husband unbearable; Mr. Robert fears she is being abused, does not trust his own temper, and asks Torchy to go and find out.",
  "predicament": "The boss's relative, afraid of his own temper, sends someone junior to investigate a family member's troubled marriage."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 431,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "They settle on Torchy delivering a box of orchids as his excuse; Torchy sets off full of sympathy for the bride and eager to see the husband punished.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is sent under a pretext to spy on a household, already sure who the villain will turn out to be."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 432,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "At the luxurious lodge the bride runs out hoping for a visitor, is disappointed it is only Torchy, then crams the costly orchids into her sash and demands he admire her.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior arrives to rescue a supposedly suffering young wife and finds her bored, vain and demanding compliments."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 433,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "She wants her husband to invite her old suitors up for company; Torchy finds no sign of injury, and she complains her husband has been sulking and drags Torchy off to play.",
  "predicament": "A young wife wants her old admirers invited to the honeymoon, and complains that her husband sulks about it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 434,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "She lists her husband's complaints as petty: her letters to a suitor, the servants threatening to leave, a tennis court he had built that she won't use; then she makes Torchy play golf and dance with her.",
  "predicament": "A spoiled young wife recites her husband's grievances as if they were nothing, and makes a visitor her playmate instead."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 435,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "She teaches Torchy new dances intimately; the husband comes in and asks to cut in, and she refuses, throws the orchids away, and rebuffs his invitation to watch the sunset.",
  "predicament": "A husband finds his bride dancing with a visitor and asks for one dance, and she coldly turns him down."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 436,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "Instead of raging, the husband slumps unhappily; he tells Torchy he cannot satisfy her whims, she has changed her mind on every plan, and things cannot go on like this.",
  "predicament": "Someone sent to catch a villain finds instead a patient, miserable husband at his wits' end with a spoiled wife."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 437,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "At dinner the bride flirts with Torchy and ignores her husband; the food is badly cooked, she sends back the dessert, a maid smirks, and she flounces off, leaving him desperate.",
  "predicament": "A household runs badly under a careless young mistress, while her husband watches helplessly and even the hired help sneer."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 438,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "Torchy confesses he was sent to spy for abuse, says the real problem is a spoiled child, and advises firmness; together they plan an approach, and next morning the bride asks why her breakfast isn't served.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior sent to spy owns up to the man he was spying on, and advises him to take a firmer line."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 439,
  "story": 32,
  "summary": "The husband calmly puts her in charge of the house and servants, so nothing happens until she gives orders; she accepts, cooks a good breakfast, and Torchy reports back that the honeymoon just started late.",
  "predicament": "A patient husband quietly hands a spoiled wife real responsibility, and she rises to it once no one else will do it."
 }
]