In a panic at the thought of being exiled, Bernard phones Helmholtz and learns that the Director has begun arranging Bernard’s punishment.The next morning, the reservation warden sign their permit to vist the reservatin and embarrasses Lenina with comments bout births among Indians.Although Lenina is tempted to break her vacation date, she boards the rocket from New Orleans to Santa Fe for the night.That evening, Bernard gives Helmholtz a “slanted” account of his encounter with the Director.Bernard petitions the Director for a vacation pass and the Director threatens to send him to Iceland if he rejects utopian policies. Benard seems to long to feel passion and regrets intimacy with Lenina, who he believes to be his intellectual inferior.She is alarmed to learn that Bernard is “distant” from the utopian norm and is “freethinker.At their meeting the next day on the roof, Lenina is complete agreement with the propaganda of Utopia accepting it without question.Benard stops at the Channel to peer into the dark, foamy water-for which Lenina is distraught.After spending some time together, Lenina and Bernard realized (too late)they are missmated.She looks forward to her “holiday” at the Zuni Reservation.Weeks pass and Lenina is convinced Benard is “odd.
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