Winston sees Julia outside the junk shop

As Winston steps out of the junk shop, he sees the dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department coming down the pavement not ten metres away. She looks him straight in the face and then walks on as though she has not seen him. Winston is paralyzed with fear, convinced that she must have followed him. He turns and walks heavily away, feeling pain in his belly. He considers smashing her skull with a cobblestone, but he is too exhausted. He returns home, drinks Victory Gin, and stares at the diary without opening it, thinking about the horror of the Ministry of Love.