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{"chunk":58,"story":2,"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.","predicament":"Someone who has done something bold in public dreads the moment a disapproving elder relative hears of it."},
{"chunk":59,"story":2,"summary":"She complains that her husband is embarrassingly proud of the book and will read the reviews aloud to visitors; she fears a scandal.","predicament":"Someone is mortified that their spouse's naive enthusiasm will expose them in front of the people they fear."},
{"chunk":60,"story":2,"summary":"She insists her provocative title is honest, not commercial, and fears she has dragged her husband's name through the mire.","predicament":"Someone who meant to provoke now worries about what it will cost the family whose name they used."},
{"chunk":61,"story":2,"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.","predicament":"Someone proud of their courage is told bluntly that the risk they fear is exactly what would bring success."},
{"chunk":62,"story":2,"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.","predicament":"Someone claims to speak for others who have suffered, and is warned by one of them that it may not be welcome."},
{"chunk":63,"story":2,"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.","predicament":"Someone in authority rewards the relative who flatters them and resents the one who went her own way."},
{"chunk":64,"story":2,"summary":"Left alone with the bishop, the novelist feigns interest in his book to deflect talk of her own, and gets its plot wrong.","predicament":"Someone tries to steer an elder away from a dangerous topic by flattering them, and is caught not knowing their work."},
{"chunk":65,"story":2,"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.","predicament":"Someone admits the only thing that would help their failing work is a public scandal they cannot decently arrange."},
{"chunk":66,"story":2,"summary":"The bishop explains that a charge of immorality would sell thousands, needed to fund a church window he has at heart.","predicament":"Someone needs money for a cause and wishes they could be attacked in public to get it."},
{"chunk":67,"story":2,"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.","predicament":"Someone betrays their own worry and is immediately asked by an elder to tone down their work."},
{"chunk":68,"story":2,"summary":"The bishop assumes the title was forced on her or chosen innocently, and warns it will offend the readers she should value.","predicament":"Someone is lectured by an elder who assumes they could not have meant to give offence."},
{"chunk":69,"story":2,"summary":"She means to defend her choice but, under the bishop's certainty, begins apologising instead; her husband walks in.","predicament":"Someone who meant to stand by their choice finds themselves backing down before an elder's authority."},
{"chunk":70,"story":2,"summary":"The husband bursts in waving the first review, delighted that the bishop is there to hear it.","predicament":"Someone's eager spouse forces a private worry into the open before exactly the wrong witness."},
{"chunk":71,"story":2,"summary":"The narrator explains that the novelist suffers from a husband who admires everything she does without understanding it.","predicament":"Someone is frustrated by a spouse whose unconditional approval makes nothing they do matter."},
{"chunk":72,"story":2,"summary":"She wrote the book partly to provoke her husband's disapproval, but he adores it and presses it on everyone.","predicament":"Someone tries to provoke a reaction from a partner and gets only praise, which defeats the purpose."},
{"chunk":73,"story":2,"summary":"The husband reads the review aloud in front of the bishop; it begins by denouncing the filth of modern fiction.","predicament":"Someone must sit through a public verdict on their work in front of the person they most wanted to keep it from."},
{"chunk":74,"story":2,"summary":"The review calls her novel sweetly harmless; weeks later her cousin finds her crushed.","predicament":"Someone who wanted to shock is dismissed as harmless, which wounds more than condemnation would."},
{"chunk":75,"story":2,"summary":"She reveals that every review has called her daring book a pretty, inoffensive story.","predicament":"Someone who staked their pride on being taken seriously finds everyone treats them as tame."},
{"chunk":76,"story":2,"summary":"The cousin says the bishop blessed the book to bury it, and suggests the bishop could make it sell by denouncing it.","predicament":"Someone learns that a rival's approval was a way of smothering them, and is advised to provoke an attack instead."},
{"chunk":77,"story":2,"summary":"The cousin explains that nobody reads books any more, only puffs, and that only a denunciation from pulpit or press will sell one.","predicament":"Someone is told that merit counts for nothing and that the way to succeed is to engineer a scandal."},
{"chunk":78,"story":2,"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.","predicament":"Someone who has quietly benefited from a public attack defends the attacker's motives to an outsider."},
{"chunk":79,"story":2,"summary":"Her book has sold a hundred and fifty thousand; strangers recognise and praise her courage on the train.","predicament":"Someone enjoys a success whose real origin they cannot admit to the people praising them."},
{"chunk":80,"story":2,"summary":"The bishop's devoted friend tells her the bishop believes the anonymous gift of the window rewarded his courage in denouncing her book.","predicament":"Someone hears a rival take credit for an outcome they secretly paid for."},
{"chunk":81,"story":2,"summary":"The friend praises her forgiveness and hints that others think the bishop's attack was deserved.","predicament":"Someone must smile through backhanded praise from people who think they were rightly punished."},
{"chunk":82,"story":2,"summary":"In the cathedral she enjoys the attention of the congregation and the press, which she owes to the bishop's denunciation.","predicament":"Someone savours public attention that exists only because of an arrangement nobody else knows about."},
{"chunk":83,"story":2,"summary":"She plans a more outspoken second novel; the bishop begins his address celebrating the window's mysterious donor.","predicament":"Someone emboldened by success prepares to go further, while waiting to hear how their secret part is described."},
{"chunk":84,"story":2,"summary":"The bishop hints that the donor was a woman and that a book played its part, and eyes turn to her.","predicament":"Someone fears a public speaker is about to reveal the secret deal they struck."},
{"chunk":85,"story":2,"summary":"Under everyone's gaze she blushes and panics while the bishop expounds on the power of novels for good or ill.","predicament":"Someone sits exposed to public attention, waiting to learn whether they are about to be named."},
{"chunk":86,"story":2,"summary":"She nearly walks out, then learns the bishop is crediting his own book with inspiring the gift.","predicament":"Someone expecting to be exposed instead hears another person take all the credit for what they did."},
{"chunk":87,"story":2,"summary":"A fellow writer guesses she paid for the window herself; she half denies it, indignant that the bishop claims credit.","predicament":"Someone who secretly bought a favour cannot claim credit for it without admitting the bargain."}
]