(Half a gram, or one tablet, will get you high.)
Lenina finally convinces him to take four tablets of soma, which is a lot.He desperately regrets angering the Director. But now that such a persecution has come to him, he sees that he has no courage to face it after all.
He had once hoped for some great pain to afflict him so that he could feel what it was like to face it without soma. In other words, Iceland is waiting for Bernard. Helmholtz then reveals that the Director is looking for someone to take Bernard's place.
Bernard finally gets to a phone and calls Helmholtz to have him turn off the tap. Basically, the world of the Reservation that the Warden describes is much like ours. Bernard tries to hurry everything up (so he can go shut the tap off), but the Warden holds him back while lecturing about the Reservation's horrors (people are born here! Eww). The Warden makes it clear that, with this electric fence, no one can "escape" from the Reservation. Lenina, who has taken half a gram of soma, has no idea what the Warden is talking about as he describes the voltage of the electric fence. Shoot, he thinks, this will cost a fortune. Meanwhile, Bernard remembers that he left the tap in the bathroom running not the water tap, but the Eau de Cologne tap. He proceeds to pelt them with useless facts about the Reservation. The next morning the pair presents their permit card to the Reservation Warden, an Alpha-Minus. Bernard warns her that there aren't going to be any luxuries on the Reservation, so she'd better prepare herself for it. All in all, a typical exchange between the two. Lenina says that "progress is lovely." Bernard responds that this is a phrase repeated five hundred times a week between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. The hotel room is awesome, since it has television, liquid air (?), and "hot contraceptives." (We don't even want to know.) Lenina and Bernard fly to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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