Book 2, Chapter 1

At work, Winston saw the girl with dark hair approach him. He was certain that she would arrest Winston sometime soon, but Winston noticed the girl was wearing a sling around her arm. It was probably a work injury - a common problem in the Fiction Department. When she walked by Winston she fell and gave a sharp cry. Winston helped her up and she gave him a note. Winston thought this was a command from Big Brother or the thought police to commit suicide for his thought crimes and so he was afraid to open it.
Winston tried distracting himself with work but after 8 minutes he opened the note and saw, in big bold letters, it read: "I love You".
Winston was distracted the rest of the morning it was only in the afternoon when he was discrediting a member of the Inner Party that he could be distracted. After 2 hours, however, the memory of the girl came back.
Winston then could not meet with her again, he had no reason to be in the Fiction Department and did not know where the girl lived. He only saw her in the canteen. After 4 days of not seeing her, Winston finally sees the girl in the canteen but is invited to sit at another table by a man named Wilsher. It was very unsafe to refuse the request and sit with someone else. The next day the girl was sitting all alone, but a man was heading to sit with her and so Winston trips the man, knocking him on the floor. At the lunch table they exchanged only a few necessary expressions to each other without emotion. The two had agreed to meet at Victory Square.
In Victory Square, there was a statue of Big Brother looking to the skies where he defeated the Eurasian airplanes in the Battle of Airstrip One. Then there was a statue of Oliver Cromwell (a cruel and power-hungry English military and political leader) on a horse. Then there was St. Martin's Church. The girl was there, pretending to read one of the poster attached to the church. Then came a truck with guards and sub machine guns passed with Eurasian prisoners. In the noise of the trucks and people talking the girl explained where to find her Sunday afternoon. Before they separated, the girl and Winston held hands, briefly.

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