Nick还没来得及说Gatsby是自己的邻居，就被Tom拉到了餐桌上。席间电话响起，Tom去接电话之后，Daisy也进屋了，两人在屋里争吵起来；Miss Baker惊讶于Nick竟然不知道Tom在纽约有情妇。两人回到餐桌后假装什么都没发生，Tom提议饭后去城里喝一杯，这时电话又响起，令人无法忽视的尴尬弥漫席间...
Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively( 悄悄地 ) and with a bantering inconsequence( 无关紧要的话 ) that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
西部地区更有人情味，不像东部这么冷淡：
It was sharply different from the West, where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close, in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.
For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened— then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.
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