Meeting in the church belfry

During the month of May they only succeed in making love once more, in the belfry of a ruinous church where an atomic bomb fell thirty years earlier. The air is hot and stagnant, smelling overpoweringly of pigeon dung. They sit talking for hours on the dusty floor, occasionally checking through the arrow-slits that no one is coming. Julia tells Winston about her life: her work in Pornosec, her first love affair at sixteen, and her philosophy of breaking the small rules so as to break the big ones. She refuses to believe in the Brotherhood, and thinks the clever thing is to break the rules and stay alive.