[
 {
  "chunk": 687,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "For three days the boss's son has treated Torchy with cold, injured dignity over the roses; then a tactless, fat club friend of the boss's son drops into the office.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior who meddled in the boss's private life is frozen out with wounded silence and has no chance to apologise."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 688,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "In front of Torchy, the friend loudly reports meeting the singer, who seemed to expect the boss's son to call and explain, and said as much.",
  "predicament": "A tactless friend blurts out the boss's romantic business in front of staff, adding that the woman expects a visit."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 689,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "The boss's son says he is now expected to explain the roses, will not believe the truth would convince her, and tells Torchy he must come and explain it himself.",
  "predicament": "A boss drawn into an awkward romantic explanation by his junior's prank orders the junior to come and confess in person."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 690,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "On the drive the boss's son is gloomy and nervous, fearless in business but timid with women; they arrive and she greets him warmly.",
  "predicament": "A boss who is bold in business goes to face an old love as nervous as a boy, with his junior in tow."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 691,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "She is poised; he blurts that he brought Torchy to explain the roses, and she coolly asks why he bothered coming himself, then asks to hear Torchy alone.",
  "predicament": "A man who brings someone else to explain himself to the woman he loves is coolly shown the door."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 692,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "Alone with her, Torchy defends the boss's son as a good man who is simply clumsy with women, and tells her about the miniature and the roses.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior left alone with the boss's lost love pleads the boss's case as a good man clumsy with women."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 693,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "Torchy says he meant to repay the boss's son for helping with his own romance, and asks why they parted.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior, repaying the boss's help with his own courtship, frankly asks the boss's lost love why they parted."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 694,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "She says she wrote him long letters from Italy and stopped when his replies bored her; back at the empty office after hours, Torchy digs out the boss's son's personal letter files.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior hears why a romance died, then goes through the boss's private files to see whether it is true."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 695,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "The files show he answered her pages with short dictated business letters about the weather and his yacht; Torchy finds him moping at his club and reports she accepted the explanation.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior discovers from the boss's own files that the boss killed his romance by writing like a business letter."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 696,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "Torchy tells him bluntly he is hopeless at romance, gets him to admit he still loves her, and urges him to pursue her the way he goes after anything he wants in business.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior bluntly tells his boss he is hopeless at courtship and urges him to pursue love like a deal."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 697,
  "story": 51,
  "summary": "Roused, the boss's son decides to write to her tonight; Torchy tells him his letters are the problem and to go in person, and he sets off at once.",
  "predicament": "A junior stops his fired-up boss from repeating his old mistake and sends him off to speak in person."
 }
]