[
 {
  "chunk": 0,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "A skipper waiting up for his late-returning mate and brother-in-law has just lost a shouted argument with a neighbouring crew; the mate arrives and answers his rebuke with cheek.",
  "predicament": "Someone waiting up for a relative who comes in late wants to reproach him, and gets cheek back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 1,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The mate tells the skipper he has invited his sweetheart on the voyage without asking; the skipper is appalled and asks what his wife will say.",
  "predicament": "A man learns a relative has promised a stranger his hospitality without asking, and fears what his spouse will say."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 2,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The skipper tries to refuse the young woman passage but cannot bring himself to say so, and ends up eating supper with the couple.",
  "predicament": "A man who wants to turn an unwelcome guest away cannot find the nerve to say it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 3,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The girl balks at her cramped quarters but stays; the skipper warns that his wife will blame him, and the mate says his sister can mind her own business.",
  "predicament": "A man who has let something happen under his roof fears his spouse will hold him responsible for it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 4,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The skipper insists on chaperoning the girl at meals himself, leaving the mate to steer and eat cold leftovers while she laughs at the skipper's stories.",
  "predicament": "A young man who brought the person he is courting along is pushed aside by an older man who takes charge of her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 5,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jealous, the mate hints at the skipper's wife, is mocked by the pair, is rude to the girl, and is sent away.",
  "predicament": "A jealous suitor tries to put his rival in his place, and only makes himself look childish."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 6,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The girl snubs the mate as 'only the mate'; he turns the tables by threatening to let the skipper explain her presence to his wife alone.",
  "predicament": "A spurned man realises he holds something over the rival who humiliated him, and decides to use it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 7,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The mate refuses to back the skipper's story; the skipper hides the girl below as they arrive to find his wife waiting on the quay.",
  "predicament": "A man hiding an innocent but compromising secret is met by his spouse, while the one person who could clear him refuses to."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 8,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The mate pulls meaningful faces behind the skipper's back until the wife grows suspicious; the skipper invents a toothache and tries to steer her away.",
  "predicament": "A man tries to hurry his spouse away from a secret while someone signals behind his back that something is up."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 9,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The wife stamps her foot, the hidden girl appears, and the mate lets his brother-in-law take the blame while pretending to shield him.",
  "predicament": "A man caught with an innocent secret is disowned by the one person who could explain it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 10,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The wife abuses the girl, knocks her purse into the water, and orders her off; the mate, now remorseful, takes responsibility and defends her.",
  "predicament": "A man whose spite has got an innocent person abused must decide whether to own up and defend her."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 11,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The mate dives repeatedly for the purse to win the girl back; she begs him to come out but refuses to make up.",
  "predicament": "A man tries to win back someone he wronged with a dangerous public show of devotion."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 12,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The mate fakes drowning; the skipper rescues him, sees him wink while the girl kisses him, and the wife boxes his ears.",
  "predicament": "A man pretends to be in danger to win sympathy, and the one who saved him sees through it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 13,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The wife takes the girl home to breakfast, leaving both men soaked, while the skipper fends off the mate's apologies with a boathook.",
  "predicament": "Two men who quarrelled over a woman are both left out in the cold by the women they wronged."
 }
]