It was Winston's neighbor, Mrs. Parsons at the door, she asked him to unblock her sink since her husband, Tom Parsons, who is a colleague of Winston in the Ministry of Truth, is not home. Winston Smith assisted and went back home to continue writing the diary, and again thought of O'Brien. Winston remembered a dream seven years earlier in which a voice said to him, "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." He assumed this voice to be that of O'Brien's and is irrefutable that, one way or the other, the prophecy of the dream will come to