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It was dark now, I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder and drew her toward me and asked her to dinner.
“And Daisy must have something in her life,” murmured Jordan to me.
“Does she want to see Gatsby?”
“She doesn't know anything about it. Gatsby doesn't want her to know. You'll just invite her to tea.”
Chapter 5
When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two o'clock and everything was blazing with light. Turning a corner I saw that Gatsby's house was lit from roof to cellar.
At first I thought it was another party. But there wasn't a sound. Only wind in the trees which blew the wires. My taxi went away and I saw Gatsby. He was walking toward me across his lawn.
“Your place looks like the world's fair,” I said.
“Does it?” He turned his eyes toward it absently. “Let's go to Coney Island, old sport. In my automobile.”
“It's too late.”
“Well, then maybe a swimming pool? I haven't used it all summer.”
“I've got to go to bed.”
“All right.”