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After they return to the rest house, Lenina takes six half-gramme tablets of soma, gets in bed and leaves for lunar eternity. Bernard, on the other hand, lies awake all night, formulating the details of his plan. In the morning, he flies to Santa Fe, where he calls the World Controller's Office. After repeating his story several times, he's able to speak to Mustapha Mond himself, who finds it of sufficient scientific interest to bring the two savages back to Civilization. The necessary orders are sent to the Warden, and Bernard returns to the Reservation to receive them. Meanwhile, John goes to the rest house. When no one answers, he's afraid Bernard and Lenina have left him. But, seeing Lenina's suitcase through the window, he picks up a rock and breaks inside. He goes through the items in the suitcase, awed by the smell of perfume and the sound of zippers. In the bedroom, he finds Lenina fast asleep. He hovers over her, wanting to touch her, quotes from Romeo and Juliet filtering through his head. But he can't bring himself to profane her with his hand. Then he hears a helicopter outside and rushes out to meet Bernard. This is primarily a transitional chapter, in which Bernard secures the necessary paperwork to bring John and Linda back to Civilization, and John explores some of the products of the New World, Lenina among them. John is attracted to Lenina precisely because he sees her as different, a representation of purity and perfection like Shakespeare's Juliet. But his pre-modern ideas about sexuality, which are complicated by Shakespearean verses for which he has no context, will clearly conflict with Lenina's conditioning, which is a product of the world he's about to enter. In fact, his desire for Lenina is only a symptom of his desire for the beauty and perfection his mother has described. Inevitably, both Lenina and the New World will fail to live up to his ideals.
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