[
 {
  "chunk": 709,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "With the boss's son neglecting work to court the singer, the old boss grumbles at his absence and asks Torchy how long the romance will take; Torchy says he is doing well now.",
  "predicament": "The old head, fed up with his heir's absences, asks the junior who knows all about his son's courtship how it is going."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 710,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "The old boss asks, drily, when his son might return to business; Torchy predicts a crisis at the boss's daughter's weekend house party, where the couple are to be left alone together.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior, asked by the old head to forecast the heir's romance, reports a family plot to leave the couple alone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 711,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "The dim son-in-law keeps barging in on the couple with botanical lectures, and Torchy is sent to steer him away and explain tactfully that he is not wanted.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior is sent to steer a well-meaning but tactless relative of the boss away from a courting couple."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 712,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "Things go well until a flirtatious boarding-school friend of the daughter's phones from the station inviting herself to stay; Torchy is sent to fetch her.",
  "predicament": "Just as a delicate courtship is going well, an uninvited guest announces she is arriving, and the junior is sent to collect her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 713,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "The guest, a coquettish Southern belle, orders Torchy about, calls him honey, cuddles up to him in the car, and brightens when she hears the boss's son is there.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior collecting a guest finds her an outrageous flirt who at once asks which eligible men are present."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 714,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "Told the boss's son is spoken for, she scoffs and flirts with Torchy instead; he mockingly asks if her intentions are serious until she drops his arm in fury.",
  "predicament": "Someone fending off a determined flirt mocks her advances so drily that she recoils in offended fury."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 715,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "She holds up dinner to change into a startling gown, then attaches herself to the boss's son, leaving the singer trailing behind.",
  "predicament": "A determined flirt ignores every hint and fastens onto a man who is plainly courting someone else."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 716,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "Through dinner and next morning she monopolises the helpless boss's son with chatter, palm-reading and flowers, while the singer watches, amused; the daughter grows angry.",
  "predicament": "A polished man is helpless against a flirt's all-out assault, while the woman he loves looks on, amused."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 717,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "The daughter calls a council to get rid of the flirt, since the singer is left reading alone; a chauffeur's deserted wife arrives with her small children to ask for news of her runaway husband.",
  "predicament": "A hostess desperate to rid her party of a disruptive guest begs the others for a scheme, just as an unexpected caller arrives."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 718,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "Learning the missing husband shares the boss's son's first name, Torchy borrows the woman and her children and poses them conspicuously at the garden gate.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior borrows an unwitting caller's sad errand to stage a scene that will scare off an unwanted guest."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 719,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "In front of the flirt Torchy tells the boss's son that 'she' is back with the children and wants her Robert; he laughs, and the flirt calls him a brute and storms off.",
  "predicament": "Someone junior tells a misleading half-truth in front of a flirt, who concludes the boss has a secret family and flees."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 720,
  "story": 53,
  "summary": "The boss's son declines to have the misunderstanding cleared up, goes to find the singer, and sends money to the deserted wife; the flirt leaves by train, and that night the couple stroll in the moonlight.",
  "predicament": "A boss spared an unwanted admirer by his junior's trick chooses not to correct it, and hurries back to the woman he loves."
 }
]