The Great Gatsby - Planet eBook

upper window.‘I’ll get some whiskey,’ answered Tom. He went inside.Gatsby turned to me rigidly:‘I can’t say anything in his house, old sport.’‘She’s got an indiscreet voice,’ I remarked. ‘It’s full of——‘I hesitated.‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly.That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full ofmoney—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fellin it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it…. High in awhite palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl….Tom came out of the house wrapping a quart bottle ina towel, followed by Daisy and Jordan wearing small tighthats of metallic cloth and carrying light capes over theirarms.‘Shall we all go in my car?’ suggested Gatsby. He felt thehot, green leather of the seat. ‘I ought to have left it in theshade.’‘Is it standard shift?’ demanded Tom.‘Yes.’‘Well, you take my coupé and let me drive your car totown.’The suggestion was distasteful to Gatsby.‘I don’t think there’s much gas,’ he objected.‘Plenty of gas,’ said Tom boisterously. He looked at thegauge. ‘And if it runs out I can stop at a drug store. You canbuy anything at a drug store nowadays.’A pause followed this apparently pointless remark. Dai-