gave him was quite different from the one by which he had come,
and brought him out at a different railway station. 'Never go home the same
way as you went out,' she said, as though enunciating an important general
principle. She would leave first, and Winston was to wait half an hour
before following her.
She had named a place where they could meet after work, four evenings
hence. It was a street in one of the poorer quarters, where there was an
open market which was generally crowded and noisy. She would be hanging
about among the stalls, pretending to be in search of shoelaces or sewing-
thread. If she judged that the coast was clear she would blow her nose when
he approached; otherwise he was to walk past her without recognition. But
with luck, in the middle of the crowd, it would be safe to talk for a
quarter of an hour and arrange another meeting.
'And now I must go,' she said as soon as he had mastered his
instructions. 'I'm due back at nineteen-thirty. I've got to put in two
hours for the Junior Anti-Sex Leagu