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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