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The Great Gatsby — Chapter 4 — Page 18

I was scared, I can tell you; Id never seen a girl like that before. Here, dearies. She groped around in a wastebasket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. Take em downstairs and give em back to whoever they belong to. Tell em all Daisys change her mine. Say: Daisys change her mine! She began to cryshe cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mothers maid, and we locked the door and got her into a cold bath. She wouldnt let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow. But she didnt say another word. We gave her spirits of ammonia and put ice on her forehead and hooked her back into her dress, and half an hour later, when we walked out of the room, the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over. Next day at five oclock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver, and started off on a three months trip to the South Seas. I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back, and I thought Id never seen a girl so mad about her husband.