[
 {
  "chunk": 633,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "An old-fashioned, ruddy gentleman storms into the private office and demands to know why the boss's son made him president of one of the firm's companies without asking.",
  "predicament": "A wealthy old acquaintance storms in to protest that the boss put his name at the head of a venture without asking."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 634,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "The boss's son explains that the break-up of the firm required many figurehead presidents; the old man says he knows nothing of the business, and the boss's son says his private secretary handles it all.",
  "predicament": "A boss soothes an angry figurehead by saying his newly promoted right hand runs the whole thing for him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 635,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "The old man refuses to hear a word, agrees his name may be used, and goes in to see the old boss; the boss's son explains he is a restless globetrotter who will soon be off again.",
  "predicament": "Someone newly promoted learns his nominal superior is an absentee who wants nothing to do with the work."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 636,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "A week later Torchy is at the theatre with one of the two elderly ladies who took him into their home years ago; he describes their old-fashioned house.",
  "predicament": "Someone risen from nothing still lives with the elderly benefactors who took him in off the street years before."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 637,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "He describes his two adopted aunts: one slow and relentlessly pious, who reads scripture to him twice a week, and the other lively and modern.",
  "predicament": "Someone taken in by two elderly sisters describes how differently each one looks after him, one pious and one worldly."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 638,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "The lively aunt goes to concerts and radical meetings, looks after his clothes without preaching, talks to him as an equal, and joins him in teasing her sister.",
  "predicament": "An elderly benefactor treats a young man she took in as an equal, and joins him in teasing her stuffier sister."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 639,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "At the play a man in a box keeps watching them through opera glasses; the aunt jokes she has an admirer.",
  "predicament": "An older woman out with her young companion notices a stranger staring at her, and jokes that she has an admirer."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 640,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "Torchy recognises the watcher as his absentee figurehead boss; at home, as Torchy returns with late-night sausage sandwiches, the old man arrives in a taxi and asks about the lady.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior finds his nominal superior on his doorstep late at night, asking eagerly about the woman he lives with."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 641,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "The old man asks whether she is still lively and whether her sister is alive; the aunt calls him in, and they meet for the first time in forty years.",
  "predicament": "An old admirer tracks down a woman he loved forty years ago and nervously asks whether she is still herself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 642,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "The three eat sausage sandwiches with beer; the aunt teases him, and he recalls an August night long ago.",
  "predicament": "Two old sweethearts meet again over a midnight snack and banter, circling a night they both remember."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 643,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "They toast that night; he says he has never forgiven her pious sister for what she did then, and he hints why he acted as he did long ago.",
  "predicament": "An old flame still holds a grudge against the relative who parted them, while the woman laughs it off."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 644,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "She shoos him out at midnight; next day the pious sister waits grimly, the lively one fails to come home to dinner, and a telegram announces the two have eloped.",
  "predicament": "A pious sister waits in dread, and learns her lively sibling has run off with the old flame she once thwarted."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 645,
  "story": 47,
  "summary": "The pious sister sobs that forty years ago she stopped the same pair eloping when her sister was engaged to a clergyman; Torchy gives the elderly couple his blessing.",
  "predicament": "Someone who once stopped a relative's elopement learns, forty years later, that the lovers have finally done it anyway."
 }
]