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He looked around him wildly , as if the past were hiding here in the shadow of his house , just out of reach of his hand . He talked a lot about the past , and I understood that he wanted to find again some idea of himself that had gone into loving Daisy . One autumn night , five years before , they had been walking down a street where the leaves were falling , and they came to a place where there were no trees and the pavement was white with moonlight . They stopped there and turned towards each other . He knew that if he kissed this girl , his dreams would be tied to her for ever . So he waited a moment longer . Then he kissed her , and at the touch of his lips she opened for him like a flower . Through all he said , I was reminded of some lost words that I had heard long ago , but what I had almost remembered was lost for ever . X . The Hottest Day of the Summer It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night . Cars turned into his drive , waited for a minute and then drove sadly away . My Finnish woman told me that he had sent away all his servants and replaced them with half a dozen new people , who never went into the village . The next day Gatsby telephoned me . “ I wanted somebody who wouldn’t gossip , old sport , ” he explained . “ Daisy comes over quite often , in the afternoons . These are some people Wolfshiem wanted to do something for . ” So the whole circus had fallen like a house of cards because of the disapproval in her eyes . He was calling at Daisy’s request : would I come to lunch at her house the next day ? Miss Baker would be there . The next day was burning hot , almost the last and certainly the warmest day of the summer . When Gatsby and I arrived , the butler took us into a dark , cool room , where Daisy and Jordan lay on an enormous sofa in white dresses . Tom was in the hall , talking angrily on the telephone , and Jordan whispered that it was his girl on the line . As soon as he had gone out again to make cold drinks , Daisy got up , went over to Gatsby , pulled his face down and kissed him on the mouth . “ You know I love you , ” she murmured . Then a nurse brought in Daisy’s little girl , Pammy , who ran across the room and hid her face in her mother’s dress . Gatsby kept looking at the child with surprise . I don’t think he had ever really believed that she existed before . At lunch Daisy cried , “ What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon , and the day after that , and the next thirty years ? It’s so hot , and everything’s so confused . Let’s all go to town ! ” Gatsby’s eyes moved towards her . “ Ah , ” she cried , “ you look so cool . You always look so cool . ”
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