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1"I heard you, but I'd like to know when." "It was in nineteen-nineteen, I only stayed five months. That's why I can't
2really call myself an Oxford man." Tom glanced around to see if we mirrored his unbelief. But we were all looking at
3Gatsby. "It was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the armistice," he continued. "We could go to any
4of the universities in England or France." I wanted to get up and slap him on the back. I had one of those renewals of
5complete faith in him that I'd experienced before. Daisy rose, smiling faintly, and went to the table. "Open the whisky,
6Tom," she ordered, "and I'll make you a mint julep. Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself … Look at the mint!" "Wait
7a minute," snapped Tom, "I want to ask Mr. Gatsby one more question." "Go on," Gatsby said politely. "What kind of a row
8are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?" They were out in the open at last and Gatsby was content. "He isn't causing
9a row," Daisy looked desperately from one to the other. "You're causing a row. Please have a little self-control."
10"Self-control!" repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere
11make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out … Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life
12and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."
13Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization. "We're all
14white here," murmured Jordan. "I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you've got to make your
15house into a pigsty in order to have any friends--in the modern world." Angry as I was, as we all were, I was tempted to
16laugh whenever he opened his mouth. The transition from libertine to prig was so complete. "I've got something to tell
17you, old sport--" began Gatsby. But Daisy guessed at his intention. "Please don't!" she interrupted helplessly. "Please
18let's all go home. Why don't we all go home?" "That's a good idea," I got up. "Come on, Tom. Nobody wants a drink." "I
19want to know what Mr. Gatsby has to tell me." "Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She
20loves me." "You must be crazy!" exclaimed Tom automatically. Gatsby sprang to his feet, vivid with excitement. "She
21never loved you, do you hear?" he cried. "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.
22It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!" At this point Jordan and I tried to go,
23but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain--as though neither of them had anything to conceal
24and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions. "Sit down, Daisy," Tom's voice groped
25unsuccessfully for the paternal note. "What's been going on? I want to hear all about it." "I told you what's been going
26on," said Gatsby. "Going on for five years--and you didn't know." Tom turned to Daisy sharply. "You've been seeing this
27fellow for five years?" "Not seeing," said Gatsby. "No, we couldn't meet. But both of us loved each other all that time,
28old sport, and you didn't know. I used to laugh sometimes"--but there was no laughter in his eyes--"to think that you
29didn't know." "Oh--that's all." Tom tapped his thick fingers together like a clergyman and leaned back in his chair.
30"You're crazy!" he exploded. "I can't speak about what happened five years ago, because I didn't know Daisy then--and
31I'll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door. But all the
32rest of that's a God damned lie. Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now." "No," said Gatsby, shaking
33his head. "She does, though. The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what
34she's doing." He nodded sagely. "And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool
35of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time." "You're revolting," said Daisy. She turned
36to me, and her voice, dropping an octave lower, filled the room with thrilling scorn: "Do you know why we left Chicago?
37I'm surprised that they didn't treat you to the story of that little spree." Gatsby walked over and stood beside her.
38"Daisy, that's all over now," he said earnestly. "It doesn't matter any more. Just tell him the truth--that you never
39loved him--and it's all wiped out forever." She looked at him blindly. "Why--how could I love him--possibly?" "You never
40loved him." She hesitated. Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she
41was doing--and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all. But it was done now. It was too late.
42"I never loved him," she said, with perceptible reluctance. "Not at Kapiolani?" demanded Tom suddenly. "No." From the
43ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air. "Not that day I carried you down
44from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry?" There was a husky tenderness in his tone … "Daisy?" "Please don't." Her
45voice was cold, but the rancour was gone from it. She looked at Gatsby. "There, Jay," she said--but her hand as she
46tried to light a cigarette was trembling. Suddenly she threw the cigarette and the burning match on the carpet. "Oh, you
47want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now--isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob
48helplessly. "I did love him once--but I loved you too." Gatsby's eyes opened and closed. "You loved me too?" he
49repeated. "Even that's a lie," said Tom savagely. "She didn't know you were alive. Why--there's things between Daisy and
50me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget." The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
51"I want to speak to Daisy alone," he insisted. "She's all excited now--" "Even alone I can't say I never loved Tom," she
52admitted in a pitiful voice. "It wouldn't be true." "Of course it wouldn't," agreed Tom. She turned to her husband. "As
53if it mattered to you," she said. "Of course it matters. I'm going to take better care of you from now on." "You don't
54understand," said Gatsby, with a touch of panic. "You're not going to take care of her any more." "I'm not?" Tom opened
55his eyes wide and laughed. He could afford to control himself now. "Why's that?" "Daisy's leaving you." "Nonsense." "I
56am, though," she said with a visible effort. "She's not leaving me!" Tom's words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby.
57"Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger." "I won't stand this!" cried
58Daisy. "Oh, please let's get out." "Who are you, anyhow?" broke out Tom. "You're one of that bunch that hangs around
59with Meyer Wolfshiem--that much I happen to know. I've made a little investigation into your affairs--and I'll carry it
60further tomorrow." "You can suit yourself about that, old sport," said Gatsby steadily. "I found out what your
61'drugstores' were." He turned to us and spoke rapidly. "He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drugstores
62here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a
63bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong." "What about it?" said Gatsby politely. "I guess your
64friend Walter Chase wasn't too proud to come in on it." "And you left him in the lurch, didn't you? You let him go to
65jail for a month over in New Jersey. God! You ought to hear Walter on the subject of you." "He came to us dead broke. He
66was very glad to pick up some money, old sport." "Don't you call me 'old sport'!" cried Tom. Gatsby said nothing.
67"Walter could have you up on the betting laws too, but Wolfshiem scared him into shutting his mouth." That unfamiliar
68yet recognizable look was back again in Gatsby's face. "That drugstore business was just small change," continued Tom
69slowly, "but you've got something on now that Walter's afraid to tell me about."
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