The chapter starts off with Winston looking around the little room above Mr. Charrington’s shop, which he has rented for his affair with Julia. Although he knows that renting the room is a rash and dangerous move, his desire to meet Julia and to have time away from telescreens overwhelms him. Winston and Julia have been busy with the city’s preparations for Hate Week, and Winston has been frustrated by their inability to meet. Winston and Julia re-unite in the rented apartment. Julia brings real sugar, coffee, and tea that she had purchased on the Black Market. For the first time, the lovers feel secure and spend a blissful afternoon together. In this chapter we hear for the first time of Winstons fear of rats. Julia first spots it and when Winston sees it he reacts very violently, "Of all the horrors in the world-a rat!". Julia calms Winston's nerves and promises to plaster the hole where the rat had emerged. Later Julia looks through the room, and notices the paperweight. Winston tells her that the paperweight is a link to the past and when Julia leaves, Winston sits gazing into the crystal paperweight, imagining living inside it with Julia in an eternal stasis, "The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal".
In the chapter we see julia and winston having a physical relations and this is not seen as good as the party ( breaking the rules) as haveing sexual affairs/realationships is frowned upon unless they have children ( to keep an eye out on the parents) as it involves energy and emotions which then would be sacrificed to the loyalty of the party.
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