Book Two: Chapter Four

In the beginning of chapter four, Winston is looking up at the room at Mr.Charrington's shop because that was where Winston and Julia were going to meet. While reading I read that when it was almost the time for them to meet, they saw each other in the streets and Julia told him that she couldn't come. Winston asked why and she simply said that it came earlier than she expected. Winston was furious because he thought that she was cheating on him, but obviously she wasn't because her period just came earlier than expected. Winston came up with the idea that their next "hiding" place should be in the room on top of Mr.Charrington's shop. In the beginning of the chapter, Winston talks about how Mr. Charrington knows what privacy is and that when people want privacy he'll respect it and let them do them. Winston is anxious and inside of his mind he keeps calling himself "folly". He heard Julia come up the steps and he was going in for a hug and a kiss, but she didn't accept it because she wanted to show him what she got. Julia got: real sugar, Inner Party coffee, real tea, real bread, and so much more. Winston wondered where she got the stuff and she said it was all Inner Party stuff, and there was nothing the swines didn't have. Julia then told Winston to turn around for three minutes and Winston looked outside the window and saw the woman singing while putting up clothes. After three minutes past, Julia told him to turn around and he saw that she was wearing cosmetics and when he hugged her, he smelt a scent. After all of that they got naked and did it on the bed. They took a nap afterwards, Winston woke up first but couldn't move because Julia's head was on his arm, then not too later Julia wakes up and starts to get up but sees a rat. When she tells Winston about the rat, he starts to freak out, and has like a flashback about a bad time with a rat, but Julia comforts him with her naked body and then everything starts to become okay. Julia then gets out of bed and puts on her overalls and starts making the coffee but they close the windows so the people won't smell it and so they won't get caught. Julia points out where the rat was, and she remembers the same rhyme that Winston does about St. Clement's Dane. Winston was curious on where she heard it and she says that her grandfather taught it to her and that he vaporized when she was eight.