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{"chunk":199,"story":7,"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.","predicament":"Someone who has moved on to a new commitment returns to an old intimate as if nothing had changed."},
{"chunk":200,"story":7,"summary":"He prides himself on an art of evading declared feeling, having once been burdened by an avowed love.","predicament":"Someone who once regretted committing themselves now takes pleasure in never committing to anyone."},
{"chunk":201,"story":7,"summary":"He trained his friend over years to hide her feelings and follow his lead in every evasion.","predicament":"Someone has shaped another person to fit their convenience and admires the result."},
{"chunk":202,"story":7,"summary":"She received his fiancée perfectly; he regrets having announced the engagement by letter, as if he had doubted her.","predicament":"Someone realises that a cautious move of theirs betrayed distrust of a person who deserved better."},
{"chunk":203,"story":7,"summary":"Missing his candid fiancée, he calls to talk about her and delights in the fresh feelings she stirs in him.","predicament":"Someone newly in love seeks out an old confidant to share it, without thinking what it costs them."},
{"chunk":204,"story":7,"summary":"His friend is startled to see him and speaks of this as a last visit; he insists nothing has changed.","predicament":"Someone expects an old arrangement to continue and is told it is ending."},
{"chunk":205,"story":7,"summary":"She reveals that his fiancée came to see her a second time that morning, which he did not know.","predicament":"Someone learns that the person they are about to marry went behind their back to an old intimate."},
{"chunk":206,"story":7,"summary":"She pities him and hints that a letter may await him; the fiancée came to find out whether anything had happened between them.","predicament":"Someone discovers their fiancée has been asking about their past with another person."},
{"chunk":207,"story":7,"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.","predicament":"Someone who thought their past was their own business finds it standing in the way of their future."},
{"chunk":208,"story":7,"summary":"Told there had never been an affair, the fiancée was more disturbed, not less: the offence was that nothing had happened.","predicament":"Someone who thought themselves innocent learns the harm lay in what they withheld."},
{"chunk":209,"story":7,"summary":"The friend confesses she loved him all along; the fiancée saw that he used her and cast her aside, and despised them both.","predicament":"Someone is made to see, through an outsider's eyes, how they have used another person's devotion."},
{"chunk":210,"story":7,"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.","predicament":"Someone who has been used offers to sacrifice their own name to save the person who used them."},
{"chunk":211,"story":7,"summary":"Moved, he refuses her sacrifice, saying it would only harm his fiancée; she tells him the fiancée has surely recalled her letter.","predicament":"Someone offered an easy escape at another's expense refuses it, and learns they may not need one."}
]