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 "source": "hand-written by Claude, reading each scene",
 "field": "summary",
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  {
   "chunk": 0,
   "summary": "A scholar returns from a rare holiday alone, secretly delighted by a private idea he has hidden from his wife and colleagues."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 1,
   "summary": "Alone in the woods for the first time since his marriage, a scholar indulges an idea he has never had the freedom to pursue."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 2,
   "summary": "A comfortable, dutiful marriage leaves a scholar no companion in the thinking that is his real life."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 3,
   "summary": "A scholar's modest earnings must support his family, and his wife economises to keep up appearances while taking pride in his obscure reputation."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 4,
   "summary": "Overworked supporting his family, a scholar breaks down, and in the enforced rest surveys how his field is seen by the public."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 5,
   "summary": "A scholar observes that his once-private discipline has become a popular fashion that everyone reads and holds opinions on."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 6,
   "summary": "Angered and amused by popular pseudo-science, a scholar resolves to write a parody of it so absurd the public will laugh at its own prophets."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 7,
   "summary": "A scholar brings his manuscript to an old college friend now a prosperous popular publisher, keeping its satirical purpose a secret."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 8,
   "summary": "The publisher warns the book may be too learned to sell, but agrees to take it; the author waves off the question of payment."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 9,
   "summary": "The publisher has rushed the book into print and congratulates the author on abandoning the scepticism of his youth."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 10,
   "summary": "The publisher takes the parody for a sincere confession of faith; the author, realising, bursts out laughing."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 11,
   "summary": "The author explains the book is a satire; the publisher, offended, suggests it need not be read ironically at all."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 12,
   "summary": "The publisher offers to sell the book as sincere, promising a mass success, and asks the author to let it stand as his real conviction."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 13,
   "summary": "The author agrees to stay silent, telling himself the joke has only grown larger and that nothing in the book will change."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 14,
   "summary": "Short of money after illness, the author accepts a large advance, sure his colleagues will see through the book and his reputation will be safe."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 15,
   "summary": "The book is already printing, so resistance seems futile; his wife, having seen a glowing review, asks why he kept it from her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 16,
   "summary": "The publisher's advertising campaign floods the country, making the book impossible to escape."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 17,
   "summary": "The author hides in his work on publication day, then reads a serious review praising his mock platitudes as noble truths."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 18,
   "summary": "Every paper follows the first review, and the publisher predicts the book will sell for years; the author is alarmed by its staying power."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 19,
   "summary": "The publisher praises the book's sentiment and pays more; the author, pestered by journalists, is asked by his wife whether interviews pay."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 20,
   "summary": "His wife confesses their son has run into debt since the book's fame; the author offers to write a lucrative popular series to cover it."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 21,
   "summary": "Having sworn not to extend the fraud, the author begins the popular series within the hour, mainly to be rid of his wife's demands."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 22,
   "summary": "Fame opens society to the author; charmed by clever women, he grows used to telling how the book first came to him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 23,
   "summary": "The author gives paid interviews on every subject and lends his face to advertisements, which keeps his household solvent."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 24,
   "summary": "The author leads a double life, courted by the public while his real research goes on unnoticed by colleagues who ignore the book."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 25,
   "summary": "The author's earnings buy him instruments for real research; nearing a genuine discovery, he confides it to one trusted colleague."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 26,
   "summary": "A colleague urges him to drop everything and write his serious book; the author asks his publisher for an advance and is refused."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 27,
   "summary": "The publisher says the old book is fading and offers a big advance only for a sequel; the author declares he will write a serious book instead."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 28,
   "summary": "Warned that popularity perishes, the author wavers, takes the advance on the sequel, and tells himself the serious book can wait six months."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 29,
   "summary": "A newly married man waits eagerly for his wife on their first evening in his own house."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 30,
   "summary": "The honeymoon is cut short by the illness of the wife's daughter from her first marriage; the husband takes comfort in his wife's calm."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 31,
   "summary": "The husband recalls the gossip about his wife's obscure origins and first divorce, which society chose to blame on the unknown first husband."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 32,
   "summary": "The wife's second marriage bought her social standing, ended in a divorce that made her sympathetic, and friends doubted the wisdom of her third."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 33,
   "summary": "The wife arrives worried: her first husband's lawyer has written about his right to see the child."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 34,
   "summary": "The first husband has the legal right to visit his sick daughter in the new husband's house; the husband reluctantly agrees."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 35,
   "summary": "Fleeing the house on the visiting day, the husband is squeezed next to his wife's second ex-husband on a crowded train and must make small talk."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 36,
   "summary": "The ex-husband mentions business with the husband's ailing partner; the husband escapes the train and welcomes the extra work."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 37,
   "summary": "At lunch the husband sees the ex-husband savouring his coffee with brandy and envies his ease."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 38,
   "summary": "The husband comes home and finds his wife serene and happy, having apparently put the day's visitor out of mind."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 39,
   "summary": "His wife says she let the nurse receive the visitor, then absent-mindedly pours brandy into her husband's coffee as her ex-husband took it, and blushes."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 40,
   "summary": "The husband's ill partner asks him to handle an important deal for his wife's ex-husband; for the firm's sake he agrees."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 41,
   "summary": "The ex-husband behaves well in the meeting and lets slip that he was once desperate for money; the husband is glad to seem the steadier man."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 42,
   "summary": "Coming home unexpectedly, the husband finds his wife's first husband, a mild shabby man, waiting in his library."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 43,
   "summary": "The husband is polite to the first husband, then retreats upset that this man has the run of his house."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 44,
   "summary": "Seeing the first husband's cheap manners, the husband pictures his wife's humble former life and is disturbed by how completely she has left it behind."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 45,
   "summary": "The husband suspects his wife misrepresented her first marriage; later the first husband asks to speak to him about the child's governess."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 46,
   "summary": "The first husband reveals he did see the wife on the first visit, exposing her lie, and says the governess is making the girl dishonest."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 47,
   "summary": "The first husband asserts his legal right to a voice in the girl's upbringing; the husband, learning of the man's sacrifices for his daughter, grows uneasy about his wife's account."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 48,
   "summary": "The wife calls the first husband ungentlemanly and cries; the husband sees she knew his rights all along and expects to be pitied."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 49,
   "summary": "The first husband uses his rights modestly; meanwhile the husband must keep meeting the second ex-husband on business he cannot pass on."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 50,
   "summary": "The husband finds his wife chatting with her second ex-husband at a ball; she offers to do whatever he wishes about speaking to him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 51,
   "summary": "Sickened by his wife's endless pliancy, the husband agrees she should be civil; society praises her for smoothing an awkward situation."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 52,
   "summary": "The husband feels he owns only a share in his wife, with her former husbands as partners, and resents her tactful acquiescence."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 53,
   "summary": "Habit dulls the husband's objections; he reckons that his predecessors trained his wife to make him comfortable."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 54,
   "summary": "The husband comes to accept the first husband's visits, and one evening offers him a cigar and a seat by the fire."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 55,
   "summary": "The second ex-husband arrives unannounced on business while the first husband sits there; all three men stand awkwardly as tea is laid out."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 56,
   "summary": "The wife enters, greets both former husbands graciously, and the three men stand awkward before her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 57,
   "summary": "The wife smooths the moment by pouring tea for all three men, and the husband takes his cup with a laugh."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 58,
   "summary": "A society wife who has just published a daring novel dreads the arrival of press clippings now that her uncle, a bishop, is in town."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 59,
   "summary": "She complains that her husband is embarrassingly proud of the book and will read the reviews aloud to visitors; she fears a scandal."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 60,
   "summary": "She insists her provocative title is honest, not commercial, and fears she has dragged her husband's name through the mire."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 61,
   "summary": "She says using a pen-name would be cowardice; her cousin, a hard-up hack writer, says an attack from the press would make her rich."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 62,
   "summary": "She claims to speak for unhappy women; her divorced cousin warns that women with a past avoid stirring up mud. The bishop's arrival terrifies her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 63,
   "summary": "The bishop arrives; he favours this niece over her cousin, whose cheap books outsell his own and who refused his advice during her divorce."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 64,
   "summary": "Left alone with the bishop, the novelist feigns interest in his book to deflect talk of her own, and gets its plot wrong."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 65,
   "summary": "The bishop says his devout book was praised only by a friend who owed him favours, and that its best hope would be a public denunciation."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 66,
   "summary": "The bishop explains that a charge of immorality would sell thousands, needed to fund a church window he has at heart."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 67,
   "summary": "The niece blurts out her own fear of not being read; the bishop turns to her novel and asks her to change its title."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 68,
   "summary": "The bishop assumes the title was forced on her or chosen innocently, and warns it will offend the readers she should value."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 69,
   "summary": "She means to defend her choice but, under the bishop's certainty, begins apologising instead; her husband walks in."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 70,
   "summary": "The husband bursts in waving the first review, delighted that the bishop is there to hear it."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 71,
   "summary": "The narrator explains that the novelist suffers from a husband who admires everything she does without understanding it."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 72,
   "summary": "She wrote the book partly to provoke her husband's disapproval, but he adores it and presses it on everyone."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 73,
   "summary": "The husband reads the review aloud in front of the bishop; it begins by denouncing the filth of modern fiction."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 74,
   "summary": "The review calls her novel sweetly harmless; weeks later her cousin finds her crushed."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 75,
   "summary": "She reveals that every review has called her daring book a pretty, inoffensive story."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 76,
   "summary": "The cousin says the bishop blessed the book to bury it, and suggests the bishop could make it sell by denouncing it."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 77,
   "summary": "The cousin explains that nobody reads books any more, only puffs, and that only a denunciation from pulpit or press will sell one."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 78,
   "summary": "Months later, a famous novelist travelling with her mocks the bishop who publicly attacked her book; she defends her uncle's sense of duty."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 79,
   "summary": "Her book has sold a hundred and fifty thousand; strangers recognise and praise her courage on the train."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 80,
   "summary": "The bishop's devoted friend tells her the bishop believes the anonymous gift of the window rewarded his courage in denouncing her book."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 81,
   "summary": "The friend praises her forgiveness and hints that others think the bishop's attack was deserved."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 82,
   "summary": "In the cathedral she enjoys the attention of the congregation and the press, which she owes to the bishop's denunciation."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 83,
   "summary": "She plans a more outspoken second novel; the bishop begins his address celebrating the window's mysterious donor."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 84,
   "summary": "The bishop hints that the donor was a woman and that a book played its part, and eyes turn to her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 85,
   "summary": "Under everyone's gaze she blushes and panics while the bishop expounds on the power of novels for good or ill."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 86,
   "summary": "She nearly walks out, then learns the bishop is crediting his own book with inspiring the gift."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 87,
   "summary": "A fellow writer guesses she paid for the window herself; she half denies it, indignant that the bishop claims credit."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 88,
   "summary": "A servant weakened by illness and nearly out of money is offered a place by a kindly former acquaintance."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 89,
   "summary": "The patron warns that the house is gloomy, the mistress an invalid who lost her children, and the last maid is dead; the servant accepts."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 90,
   "summary": "Told to keep out of the master's way, the servant travels to a large dark country house and is received by the cook."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 91,
   "summary": "On her way to her room she sees a pale woman in the passage; the housemaid scolds about a room across the hall that must stay locked."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 92,
   "summary": "The other servants praise the mistress; the maid meets her and is instantly devoted."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 93,
   "summary": "The mistress never uses the bell to her maid's room, always sending the housemaid instead."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 94,
   "summary": "No one admits to seeing the pale woman; the cook grows confused when asked where the last maid slept."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 95,
   "summary": "The cook begs her not to use the locked room, the dead maid's, and refuses to describe her; the master's arrival puts the household on edge."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 96,
   "summary": "The master, a coarse, leering man, looks the maid over and dismisses her; the mistress goes cold in his presence and brightens when he leaves."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 97,
   "summary": "A gentle neighbour who shares the mistress's love of books is her only company in winter, and the servants all like him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 98,
   "summary": "The master comes and goes, drinks heavily and grumbles; the servants hint the match was unhappy from the start."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 99,
   "summary": "The maid's duties are light and the mistress kind, but she feels a weight whenever she re-enters the house."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 100,
   "summary": "Shut in by rain, the maid grows nervous about the locked room; on a trip to town she meets an old colleague who reacts to her employer's name."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 101,
   "summary": "The colleague says four maids have left in six months; back at the house the master has arrived and the cook is relieved she returned."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 102,
   "summary": "The cook begs her to be good to the mistress; the maid overhears the master jealously accusing his wife over the neighbour."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 103,
   "summary": "Uneasy after a tense dinner, the maid is woken at night by her bell ringing for the first time."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 104,
   "summary": "She hears the locked room open and steps hurry ahead of her; at her mistress's door the master answers, asking how many of them there are."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 105,
   "summary": "The mistress, weak, calls the maid by the dead maid's name; next morning she sends her secretly to fetch medicine and carry a note to the neighbour."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 106,
   "summary": "Fearing the mistress means to poison herself, the maid rushes to the chemist and learns the medicine is harmless."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 107,
   "summary": "Wondering whether the note was the secret errand, the maid delivers it; the master confronts her and she lies to protect her mistress."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 108,
   "summary": "Afraid to stay yet unwilling to abandon her mistress, the maid finds a photograph of the dead maid and recognises the pale woman."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 109,
   "summary": "The cook deflects when shown the photograph; the master stays on, taunting his wife about the neighbour's absence."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 110,
   "summary": "The neighbour calls and all seem friendly, but the maid lies awake each night, dreading the silence of the locked room, and cannot bring herself to leave."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 111,
   "summary": "The mistress grows weaker and more dependent on the maid; with the master away the servants joke about him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 112,
   "summary": "On a cheerful afternoon, for once at ease, the maid looks up and sees the dead maid standing in her doorway."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 113,
   "summary": "The apparition looks at her pleadingly and leads her out of the house into the snow."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 114,
   "summary": "The figure, leaving no footprints, leads her to the neighbour's gate and waits for her to act."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 115,
   "summary": "The neighbour comes out cheerfully; the figure vanishes, and the maid faints, unable to guess the warning."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 116,
   "summary": "She makes an excuse to the neighbour, returns home, is sent to bed, and at night hears a door open below."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 117,
   "summary": "Her bell rings; she sees the apparition at the stairhead and hears a key in the front door; the mistress, still dressed, denies ringing and sends her away."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 118,
   "summary": "The maid warns that the master has returned; the mistress collapses, and the master pushes past, heading for the dressing room to meet a friend."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 119,
   "summary": "The apparition appears in the doorway; the master recoils; the mistress dies. At the funeral the master glares at the pale neighbour, then leaves."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 120,
   "summary": "A clever, condescending husband notices his simple wife glowing and teases her into admitting she has done something he will not like."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 121,
   "summary": "The wife, who holds only inherited opinions, says she expects his disapproval and has allowed for it, then announces 'a baby'."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 122,
   "summary": "Baffled, the husband learns she wants the child to be theirs and has long grieved at being childless."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 123,
   "summary": "The wife confesses her loneliness and that she chose nursery wallpaper years ago; the husband feels he has failed her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 124,
   "summary": "She asks to adopt an orphan from a hospital, promising it will never bother him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 125,
   "summary": "The husband agrees without resistance, accepting future ridicule as penance for having underestimated his wife."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 126,
   "summary": "The husband reflects that he has been faithful but emotionally absent, keeping his wife out of his inner life."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 127,
   "summary": "At the hospital the wife is transfigured by the child; the husband feels invisible to her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 128,
   "summary": "The husband allows a legal adoption but refuses to let the child be renamed, and begins to regret the whole business."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 129,
   "summary": "The child is quiet and healthy; the wife's character is not changed but magnified by motherhood."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 130,
   "summary": "The wife grows assertive and treats the husband as the child's father; he accepts it because she is happy."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 131,
   "summary": "The child does not bring the couple together; the wife's personality expands until the husband is squeezed into a corner of his own home."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 132,
   "summary": "The girl grows healthy and good, and the wife, feeling unequal to her, asks the husband to take charge of her education."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 133,
   "summary": "The wife humbly admits she is too stupid to know what is best for the child and asks the husband to decide."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 134,
   "summary": "The girl hoards facts without understanding and grows proud and superior; the wife hopes she will be a companion for the husband."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 135,
   "summary": "The girl sets about reforming the whole household, driving off cooks and lecturing the husband until he dines out."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 136,
   "summary": "The husband's attempts to check her only hurt his wife; the girl, pretty but charmless, fails in society despite great expense."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 137,
   "summary": "The girl takes her failure out on her mother, then turns to charity and makes the husband her evening project."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 138,
   "summary": "The wife asks him to bear the girl's attentions; then a young man starts calling, and the parents hardly dare hope he comes for her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 139,
   "summary": "An effusively polite young man courts the girl; the parents pretend not to notice while she shows no emotion at all."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 140,
   "summary": "He proposes, and the girl demands a month to think it over, to her parents' agony."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 141,
   "summary": "The girl accepts and at once begins to dominate her fiancé; the parents, pitying him, wonder whether to warn him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 142,
   "summary": "The wife tells the fiancé that the girl is always difficult; he says they never understood her and grows cold, which relieves the husband."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 143,
   "summary": "The girl turns hysterical before the wedding and threatens to break it off; the husband frets over every possible mishap until the groom arrives late."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 144,
   "summary": "The couple leave; alone together at last, the husband and wife draw close and go out to dinner."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 145,
   "summary": "A husband gives a fashionable talk arguing that faithfulness to oneself outranks marriage vows; his wife notes that he has recently begun preaching publicly what he used to keep private."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 146,
   "summary": "The hosts are a couple who trade on an artistic reputation and recruit daring speakers to keep their gatherings fashionable."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 147,
   "summary": "The wife, who once urged these views on him, now finds them vulgarised, and resents the hosts' young daughter hearing such talk."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 148,
   "summary": "The young woman asks the wife whether she believes it all; the wife blushes and says the girl doesn't understand."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 149,
   "summary": "The wife sees her husband absorbed in the young woman; walking home, he says he spoke publicly to please her, and she asks him to stop."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 150,
   "summary": "He is solicitous, but that evening presses her to explain her objection, which she cannot."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 151,
   "summary": "Looking round their home, she feels suddenly estranged; he asks whether she no longer believes the ideas their marriage was founded on."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 152,
   "summary": "She insists she still believes, but says public talk suits only certain audiences; he reminds her they met in just such a set, and she names the young woman."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 153,
   "summary": "He defends the young woman's independence of mind and admits she interests him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 154,
   "summary": "The wife's earlier divorce was accepted by everyone; her first husband was thought impossible, and remarrying a poorer man made her look disinterested."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 155,
   "summary": "She recalls her first husband as a dull, self-absorbed man who shaped everything around his own needs."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 156,
   "summary": "She remembers his mute bewilderment when she left, and her conviction that a marriage kept up out of duty is a crime."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 157,
   "summary": "She met her second husband in the heat of her revolt; he shared her views, and they agreed either could leave when love ended."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 158,
   "summary": "Ten years of happiness have made her possessive; she now feels their compact could not apply to them, and takes a nerve tonic."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 159,
   "summary": "Her husband is unusually gentle, which frightens her; when he plans to continue the talks she reminds him she objected."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 160,
   "summary": "She says she hates hearing him say spouses may leave when tired; he reminds her that was her own reason for leaving her first husband."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 161,
   "summary": "He accuses her of dropping the doctrine once it had served her, then claims her promise to release him; she says she will not go back on it."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 162,
   "summary": "She guesses he means to marry the young woman, wishes him luck, and is left alone, feeling her home is no longer hers."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 163,
   "summary": "Hours pass in stupor; every familiar object in the house mocks her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 164,
   "summary": "She considers fighting through the law or begging, but sees she is trapped by the code she herself made."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 165,
   "summary": "She goes to warn the young woman, finds her out, and wanders the streets."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 166,
   "summary": "Faint, she takes bitter tea in a shabby eating-house and feels her mind clear."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 167,
   "summary": "She sees that warning the girl would have been humiliating, and walks the darkening streets not knowing what to do."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 168,
   "summary": "She finds herself outside her first husband's house, watches him go in, and on impulse rings the bell."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 169,
   "summary": "She talks her way past the footman; her first husband, shocked, receives her to avoid a scene."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 170,
   "summary": "In the unchanged room he coldly suggests she speak through lawyers; she says lawyers cannot help this time."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 171,
   "summary": "He braces as if for a request for money; she tells him her husband has left her because he tired of her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 172,
   "summary": "He says she need not grant a divorce; she replies that he did not have to either, and asks whether he, too, never understood."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 173,
   "summary": "He admits he never understood; she asks his forgiveness, shakes his hand, and leaves before he can stop her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 174,
   "summary": "A young assistant hired to catalogue an elderly former adventurer's papers is told to get him to talk about his past, which he never discusses."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 175,
   "summary": "Going blind, the old man begins to talk of the underground struggle for independence, where prisoners died rather than betray their friends."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 176,
   "summary": "Asked for the bravest thing a woman ever did, he says it was provoked by an act of his own he is not proud of."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 177,
   "summary": "As a young officer he was sent to an occupied city to help its secret resistance, which carried on its social life in defiance."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 178,
   "summary": "He fell in love with a widowed noblewoman prominent in the cause, whose family had been ruined by a ruler's betrayal of his own conspirators."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 179,
   "summary": "Her teenage brother was hanged on flimsy evidence after the failed conspiracy, and her mother never recovered."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 180,
   "summary": "The daughter, rejecting her mother's brooding, threw herself into the cause after an unhappy marriage and worked for it with great discretion."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 181,
   "summary": "Mother and daughter both work for the cause, the mother for vengeance and the daughter for the country, and the daughter reveres her mother's suffering."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 182,
   "summary": "The daughter says her mother is tormented that her son alone left no farewell letter; all her bribes to find one failed."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 183,
   "summary": "The narrator understands that last letters from the executed were treasured and shared, and that the mother's lack of one isolates her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 184,
   "summary": "She loved another, a leading patriot devoted only to the cause, whose father had been physician to the prisons where her brother died."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 185,
   "summary": "The patriot conspired safely under cover of his loyal father's position; she shared his caution and hid fugitives for him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 186,
   "summary": "The narrator, jealous, accused her of leading him on and sneered at her hero; they parted in anger."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 187,
   "summary": "After the city rises and is freed, the wounded narrator, sulking, goes to help the new government sort the fallen ruler's archives."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 188,
   "summary": "In the archives he finds the hanged boy's farewell letter, marked as handed to the warder by his rival."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 189,
   "summary": "He reasons that the rival must have surrendered the letter to curry favour, and so must be a traitor."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 190,
   "summary": "Ignoring the rival's long record of courage, the narrator rushes back in anger to the woman he loves."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 191,
   "summary": "He calculates that the letter, bound to be published at a coming commemoration, would ruin the rival, and cannot honourably withhold it."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 192,
   "summary": "He gives her the letter; overjoyed, she kisses his hands, thinking of the comfort it will bring her mother."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 193,
   "summary": "He tells her who gave up the letter; she coolly asks for proof and does not cry out against the man she loves."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 194,
   "summary": "She asks him on his honour whether the note could be a later forgery; he says no, and she accepts the evidence without condemning her hero."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 195,
   "summary": "He presses the point that her hero betrayed a friend; she replies that she understands, and that he could not have done otherwise."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 196,
   "summary": "She argues that bringing the letter would have endangered the cause, so the boy's friend rightly put the country first."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 197,
   "summary": "Convinced despite himself, he asks why the hero never told her; she asks him to keep the letter secret from everyone, even her mother."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 198,
   "summary": "She burns the letter rather than risk her mother's anger ruining the hero, and says she can never tell him what she has done for him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 199,
   "summary": "A newly engaged man drops in on the woman he has long kept as an intimate friend, meaning to talk over her meeting with his fiancée."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 200,
   "summary": "He prides himself on an art of evading declared feeling, having once been burdened by an avowed love."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 201,
   "summary": "He trained his friend over years to hide her feelings and follow his lead in every evasion."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 202,
   "summary": "She received his fiancée perfectly; he regrets having announced the engagement by letter, as if he had doubted her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 203,
   "summary": "Missing his candid fiancée, he calls to talk about her and delights in the fresh feelings she stirs in him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 204,
   "summary": "His friend is startled to see him and speaks of this as a last visit; he insists nothing has changed."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 205,
   "summary": "She reveals that his fiancée came to see her a second time that morning, which he did not know."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 206,
   "summary": "She pities him and hints that a letter may await him; the fiancée came to find out whether anything had happened between them."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 207,
   "summary": "He protests that a man's past is his own; she says the fiancée objects even to a mere friendship, and came to see whether he was really free."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 208,
   "summary": "Told there had never been an affair, the fiancée was more disturbed, not less: the offence was that nothing had happened."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 209,
   "summary": "The friend confesses she loved him all along; the fiancée saw that he used her and cast her aside, and despised them both."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 210,
   "summary": "The fiancée wants a man capable of love, not reservations; the friend offers to say she lied, and let him claim a past with her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 211,
   "summary": "Moved, he refuses her sacrifice, saying it would only harm his fiancée; she tells him the fiancée has surely recalled her letter."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 212,
   "summary": "A mother devoted to her perfect son senses from his walk that he is coming home to tell her something."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 213,
   "summary": "In her exquisite house the son slumps by the fire, defeated, and she feels suddenly a stranger to him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 214,
   "summary": "The son says the girl he loves has refused him on principle, because he owns a scandalous newspaper."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 215,
   "summary": "The girl wants him to give up the paper or run it honestly at a loss; he mocks her fashionable ethics."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 216,
   "summary": "Mother and son agree one cannot change oneself; the girl cites the mother's own example, and the mother notes the girl's family has never called on her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 217,
   "summary": "The girl admires the mother's goodness; the mother, angry, is told her son is not asking her to make the girl love him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 218,
   "summary": "The son asks his mother to visit the girl and show her that the paper has never touched her life."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 219,
   "summary": "The mother calls at the girl's plain, comfortless home and reads failure in the furniture."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 220,
   "summary": "The girl is immovable; she says it is the mother's own beautiful example that confirms her refusal."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 221,
   "summary": "The mother argues that the girl is sacrificing her son to an idea; the girl says she is sacrificing herself."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 222,
   "summary": "The mother pleads that life is made of compromises and love outweighs theories; the girl says that is exactly why she cannot."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 223,
   "summary": "Six months later the son has buried his grief in the paper, and the mother seeks refuge in a gallery of paintings."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 224,
   "summary": "The unspoken subject has driven mother and son apart; in the gallery she meets the girl."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 225,
   "summary": "The girl looks worn and unhappy; the mother offers her a lift, is refused, and turns away."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 226,
   "summary": "The girl confesses she followed the mother there, has been unhappy, and now believes the mother was right; she asks whether the son still cares."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 227,
   "summary": "The mother says she too has suffered, and now admits the girl was right and she was wrong."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 228,
   "summary": "The girl believes love alone could change the son; the mother says she once said the same, before marrying his father."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 229,
   "summary": "The mother says she speaks because the girl is as alive as she once was, and she cannot watch her be walled up."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 230,
   "summary": "She married without knowing what the paper was, enjoyed its money, then learned it traded in exposing private scandal."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 231,
   "summary": "The girl tries to stop her from going on."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 232,
   "summary": "Her husband promised to sell the paper in time, but her delicate son's life depended on the money, and she sank deeper with each compromise."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 233,
   "summary": "She tried to purify the money through charity and to hide the paper from her son behind beauty; on her husband's death she hoped the son would sell it."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 234,
   "summary": "At twenty-one the son refused to sell, loving the power the paper gave; she saw he was what her concessions had made him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 235,
   "summary": "She gave up the struggle and learned to look only at the side of her son that was hers."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 236,
   "summary": "She warns that the son's love would never change him and that the girl would slowly die as she did; she asks what to tell him, and leaves."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 237,
   "summary": "An old man's tale begins with his younger self, just of age, sighting a fabled foreign city from his father's merchant ship."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 238,
   "summary": "The youth recalls a childhood print of the city's crowded square, full of foreigners, performers and pickpockets."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 239,
   "summary": "The city has always stood in his mind for a place of magic where the rules of his strict upbringing do not hold."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 240,
   "summary": "His tutor insists on finishing a sermon before going ashore; the youth slips away alone."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 241,
   "summary": "In the crowded square he overpays a pedlar through ignorance of the coinage, and a pleasant English-speaking stranger offers help."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 242,
   "summary": "The friendly stranger, calling himself a count, shows him the town and points out its great personages in their odd costumes."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 243,
   "summary": "Bound to return by sunset, he gives the count a costly gift, is led into the cathedral, and meets a pretty girl whose dress catches on his sword."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 244,
   "summary": "The count names her as a senator's daughter; a page slips the youth a note begging his help, and an officer seizes him."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 245,
   "summary": "The count warns him the officer serves the dreaded council and that the letter compromises a great family, and arranges for him to be taken privately to the father."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 246,
   "summary": "He asks to send word to his ship and is refused; the count urges him not to resist."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 247,
   "summary": "He breaks free and runs, is cornered in an alley, and is pulled through a gate by a servant girl."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 248,
   "summary": "He is led to the girl from the cathedral, who seems dismayed to see him; the page was her maid in disguise."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 249,
   "summary": "She says the letter was meant for an ambassador to save her from a forced marriage; her father is heard coming."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 250,
   "summary": "The father and his noble friends burst in with drawn swords; the count arrives and mediates, and says the youth is in great trouble."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 251,
   "summary": "He is accused of secret correspondence with the girl, now repudiated by her betrothed; he refuses to hide behind her word."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 252,
   "summary": "Asked to clear her by showing the letter, he sees her silently beg him not to."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 253,
   "summary": "He refuses to show his private letters; the count says honour now demands he marry the girl."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 254,
   "summary": "He is told he must marry her within the hour, and is locked in with her while the chaplain is fetched."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 255,
   "summary": "She weeps with shame, thanks him for keeping her secret, and says her father is forcing her to marry a brute."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 256,
   "summary": "She says she cannot be saved but he can, if he will do as she says without looking at her."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 257,
   "summary": "She explains that everyone involved can be bought, and begs him to offer a ransom to go free."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 258,
   "summary": "He offers to marry her himself instead; she refuses and insists she must marry the other man."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 259,
   "summary": "He declares his love; she kisses him, takes a trinket from his watch-chain, and laughs strangely that she will get none of the money."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 260,
   "summary": "He realises the whole thing was a swindle; she admits it but says her love was real, just as his ship's captain and tutor arrive with the police."
  },
  {
   "chunk": 261,
   "summary": "The captain exposes the tricksters as known confidence men, softens towards the girl, and takes the youth back to his ship."
  }
 ]
}