Julia says that it is probably safe to meet in the clearing one more time, in about a month, but on about the second page of chapter III, the narrator says, “As it happened they never went back to the clearing in the wood” (128). Although Winston’s thoughts often move from the present to the past and back again, it is unusual for the narrator to take a perspective that is clearly from a future time when the story is over. It requires speculation, but why do you think that Orwell chose to do this at this point? What is the effect?