[
 {
  "chunk": 551,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "As private secretary Torchy now gets invited to the boss's daughter's dance like a real guest; the son-in-law refuses to learn to dance, and in a shoe shop Torchy overhears a customer ordering expensive pumps sent to his hotel.",
  "predicament": "Someone newly promoted is invited into the boss family's social life for the first time, and finds it costs money."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 552,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The customer is a ne'er-do-well Torchy once knew as a lunch-counter hand; now dressed like a swell, he pretends not to know Torchy at first, then slips away.",
  "predicament": "Someone meets an old acquaintance from humble days, now dressed like a gentleman, who pretends not to know him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 553,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "Torchy recalls the man as a useless, often-fired, ungainly idler he used to lend money to, the only son in a hard-working family whose sisters have all done well.",
  "predicament": "Someone recalls an idle hanger-on who never held a job and wonders how he can suddenly afford to live grandly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 554,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "A year earlier the man had been thrown out of the boss's house for badgering his sister, a maid there, for money, and swore he would show his family some day.",
  "predicament": "A family's black sheep, thrown out for cadging from a sister in service, swears he will make them all sorry."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 555,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "Torchy puzzles over the man's new money, takes dancing lessons for the party because his sweetheart will be there, and at the dance sees the man arrive.",
  "predicament": "Someone who spent on lessons to shine before his sweetheart at a grand party sees an unlikely acquaintance walk in."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 556,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The man arrives in full evening dress and is received at the door by his own sister, the maid, who gasps his name; he stares through her. Torchy dutifully asks the heavy boss's daughter to dance, and is relieved when she says she is engaged.",
  "predicament": "An upstart posing as a gentleman at a grand party is announced by his own sister, who is there as a servant."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 557,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "Sitting with the bored son-in-law, Torchy is horrified to see the boss's daughter take the floor for a showy dance with the impostor.",
  "predicament": "Someone watches in dread as the boss's daughter takes the floor with a stranger he knows to be an impostor."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 558,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "To his surprise the daughter dances beautifully and lightly, and the pair win applause from the room.",
  "predicament": "Someone braced for the boss's relative to be humiliated in public sees her triumph instead, and the room applauds."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 559,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "As she dances every number with the stranger, the son-in-law grows uneasy and insists on finding out who he is; the boss's son teases him about his substitute.",
  "predicament": "A husband who refused to dance grows uneasy watching his wife partnered all night by a stranger no one knows."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 560,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The boss's son and the husband decide to confront the stranger; Torchy heads off a scene by offering to do it quietly, and takes the man into the dressing room.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior heads off a public scene by offering to question a suspicious guest himself, quietly, out of sight."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 561,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The man produces a genuine invitation from the boss's daughter and admits she hired him from her dancing school; he is a paid partner who escorts ladies to parties for a fee.",
  "predicament": "Someone questioning a suspicious guest learns the boss's relative secretly hired him as a paid partner for the evening."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 562,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "He boasts of his income and his conquests and gloats at snubbing his family; disgusted, Torchy tells him the husband and brother are furious about the talk.",
  "predicament": "Someone disgusted by a braggart's gloating invents a danger to scare him off before he causes trouble."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 563,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "The man panics and flees, and Torchy has his sister smuggle him out the back; meanwhile the boss's daughter tells the family she hired him because she was tired of being a wallflower.",
  "predicament": "A braggart is frightened out the back door by his own sister, while the boss's relative confesses she hired him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 564,
  "story": 41,
  "summary": "Torchy reports the man has left unwell and wants his fee by post; the boss's son asks how he did it, and Torchy says it was just talk.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior who quietly removed an embarrassing guest tells the amused boss it took nothing but talk."
 }
]