- D-503 awakens again, thinking that O-90 will come to him and make it all okay.
- He's interrupted by a call from I-330, who says that they'll be getting together. He protests, but he's not fooling anyone.
- She takes him to her doctor friend, who gives them "certificates testifying that we were ill, that we were unable to go to work. Thus I stole my work from the United State; I was a thief; I deserved to be put beneath the Machine of the Well-Doer." (13.23), but doesn't protest.
- They take a plane to the Ancient house, where they make sweet, sweet love again.
- She leaves, though he doesn't seem to see her go.