[
 {
  "chunk": 606,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "While Torchy is entertaining the boss's son's hearty sporting friend in the private office, a finicky, sharp-tongued young man arrives to meet the boss's son-in-law, who has forgotten the appointment.",
  "predicament": "Someone newly in charge of the boss's callers must entertain two ill-matched visitors at once while the family member they want is absent."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 607,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "The sporting friend recognises the newcomer from a summer camp and calls him by a girlish nickname he hates; the small man bristles and the big one laughs.",
  "predicament": "A touchy visitor is greeted by an old acquaintance using the mocking nickname he has always hated."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 608,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "The sporting friend, a practical joker and big-game hunter, keeps needling the violinist, who gives as good as he gets, and teasingly invites him on a bear hunt.",
  "predicament": "A hearty bully with a taste for crude jokes keeps baiting a frail, sharp-tongued man who answers him cutting word for word."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 609,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "The violinist frankly admits he is terrified of large animals and leaves; the boss's son gives Torchy an invitation to a musical evening at which his sweetheart will be, and the joker realises the performer is his victim.",
  "predicament": "A frail man openly admits a fear to a bully, who files it away as the makings of a cruel joke."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 610,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "The joker begs an invitation to the musical to have sport with the violinist, describing him as a conceited, sharp-tongued little snob everyone puts up with for his music.",
  "predicament": "A bully begs an invitation to a family gathering purely for the chance to torment one of the guests."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 611,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "He learns a hearty sporting woman will be there too, gets his invitation, and leaves chuckling over a plan; later the boss's daughter brings the mannish woman into the office.",
  "predicament": "A boss grudgingly lets a bullying friend into a family occasion, and the friend leaves chuckling over some private plan."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 612,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "The woman, a good-humoured, tomboyish unmarried sportswoman near thirty, greets Torchy boisterously; on the night Torchy arrives early and snatches half an hour with his sweetheart before her aunt appears.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior uses the boss family's gathering to snatch a little time alone with his sweetheart before her guardian arrives."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 613,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "With the aunt watching Torchy sternly, the violinist fusses imperiously over the flowers, the draughts and his strings before playing.",
  "predicament": "A gifted but petulant performer makes the whole household wait on his whims before he consents to begin."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 614,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "He plays brilliantly and is rude about the applause; during a lullaby a man in a bear costume shambles in behind him, growling.",
  "predicament": "A gifted performer holding a room spellbound is ambushed mid-performance by a bully's cruel practical joke."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 615,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "White with terror, the violinist nevertheless grabs the music stand to fight; the sportswoman rips off the bear's head to expose the joker, rebukes him, and carries the hysterical violinist out of the room.",
  "predicament": "A frightened man stands up to what terrifies him, and a woman steps in to unmask the bully and carry him off."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 616,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "The family round on the sheepish joker, and the boss's son is scolding him when the violinist returns.",
  "predicament": "A bully whose prank went too far is rounded on by his hosts, who make clear such fun is not welcome."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 617,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "The violinist explains he has been an invalid for fifteen years, refuses sympathy, and dismisses the joker as all beef and no brains; the joker slinks off. The sweetheart fetches Torchy to the sportswoman, who is weeping.",
  "predicament": "A humiliated man explains his fear with dignity, refuses pity, and leaves the bully shamed before everyone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 618,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "The sportswoman sobs that the violinist called her a meddling old maid, and that she loves him; Torchy tells the violinist someone in the library needs him, and he rushes off eagerly.",
  "predicament": "Someone learns a hearty, overlooked woman secretly loves the man who just insulted her, and quietly sends him to her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 619,
  "story": 45,
  "summary": "A week later the violinist is warm and cordial to Torchy and is escorting the sportswoman out, clearly courting her.",
  "predicament": "An ill-matched pair brought together by a quiet word turn out to suit each other, the timid one now bold."
 }
]