. . . well, I talk now. . . . I talk now, old sport. . . . I said a SMALL town. . . . he “Yes. can’t can’t must know what a small town is. . . . well, no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town. he’s . . .” He rang off. here cried Daisy at the window. “Come QUICK!” The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea. at she whispered, and then after a moment: like to just get one of those pink “Look that,” “I’d clouds and put you in it and push you around.” I tried to go then, but they hear of it; perhaps my presence made them feel more wouldn’t satisfactorily alone. know what said Gatsby, have Klipspringer play the “I we’ll do,” “we’ll piano.” He went out of the room calling and returned in a few minutes accompanied by an “Ewing!” embarrassed, slightly worn young man, with shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blond hair. He was now decently clothed in a open at the neck, sneakers, and duck trousers of a “sport shirt,” nebulous hue. we interrupt your inquired Daisy politely. “Did exercises?” was cried Mr. Klipspringer, in a spasm of embarrassment. is, BEEN asleep. “I asleep,” “That I’d Then I got up. . . .” the said Gatsby, cutting him off. you, Ewing, old “Klipspringer plays piano,” “Don’t sport?” play well. I hardly play at all. all out of prac——” “I don’t don’t—I I’m go down-stairs,” interrupted Gatsby. He flipped a switch. The gray windows disappeared “We’ll as the house glowed full of light. In the music-room Gatsby turned on a solitary lamp beside the piano. He lit cigarette Daisy’s from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room, where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.
“Yes. . . . well, I can’t talk now. . . . I can’t talk now, old sport. . . . I said a SMALL town. . . . he must know what a small town is. . . . well, he’s no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town. . . .” He rang off. “Come here QUICK!” cried Daisy at the window. The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea. “Look at that,” she whispered, and then after a moment: “I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.” I tried to go then, but they wouldn’t hear of it; perhaps my presence made them feel more satisfactorily alone. “I know what we’ll do,” said Gatsby, “we’ll have Klipspringer play the piano.” He went out of the room calling “Ewing!” and returned in a few minutes accompanied by an embarrassed, slightly worn young man, with shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blond hair. He was now decently clothed in a “sport shirt,” open at the neck, sneakers, and duck trousers of a nebulous hue. “Did we interrupt your exercises?” inquired Daisy politely. “I was asleep,” cried Mr. Klipspringer, in a spasm of embarrassment. “That is, I’d BEEN asleep. Then I got up. . . .” “Klipspringer plays the piano,” said Gatsby, cutting him off. “Don’t you, Ewing, old sport?” “I don’t play well. I don’t—I hardly play at all. I’m all out of prac——” “We’ll go down-stairs,” interrupted Gatsby. He flipped a switch. The gray windows disappeared as the house glowed full of light. In the music-room Gatsby turned on a solitary lamp beside the piano. He lit Daisy’s cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room, where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.
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