After
Dr. Sosa’s lecture ends,
Rosemary meets
Harlow at a hamburger restaurant, where she plans to get drunk. She is considering telling Harlow about the lecture, and thus is annoyed to see
Reg there too. To Rosemary’s dismay, Harlow has also brought
Madame Defarge. Harlow is filled with excitement about an upcoming gender-reversed production of
Macbeth for which she will be making the sets and costumes. Rosemary steadily becomes drunk and sweaty. She admits that she also takes “a couple of pills” from Harlow. Eventually, Rosemary begins to tell Reg about “the mirror test,” the practice of using mirrors in order to evaluate the self-awareness of monkeys. Reg seems uninterested and comments that Rosemary “sure talk[s] a lot.”