[ {"chunk": 42, "story": 5, "summary": "After a day of dazed indecision the young man bolts from his desk and runs along the dark alleys behind the stores, stumbling over the town drunkard, set on an adventure.", "predicament": "A young man who has spent all day unable to decide suddenly bolts into the night to do something he fears."}, {"chunk": 43, "story": 5, "summary": "Hiding his face from passers-by, he reaches a girl's kitchen and calls her in a hoarse whisper; she answers sulkily, then tells him to wait by a barn.", "predicament": "A nervous young man calls out a girl with a reputation, and she pretends she never invited him."}, {"chunk": 44, "story": 5, "summary": "She had written him that she was his if he wanted her; by the barn he is timid and she needles him that he thinks himself better than she is.", "predicament": "A young man who answered a girl's bold note stands tongue-tied beside her, while she accuses him of looking down on her."}, {"chunk": 45, "story": 5, "summary": "Emboldened by the gossip about her, he becomes pushy and without sympathy, promising nobody will know, and they walk to a berry field and sit on a pile of boards.", "predicament": "A young man emboldened by gossip about a girl presses her, with no feeling for her, promising that nobody will know."}, {"chunk": 46, "story": 5, "summary": "Back in town late in the rain he buys a cigar and chats contentedly with another man, then stops, listening as if for a voice, and mutters that she has nothing on him and nobody knows.", "predicament": "A young man walks home from a secret encounter, pleased with himself, while half fearing someone knows."} ]