《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter VII》第37节
Jordan put her hand on my arm. “Won’t you come in, Nick?” “No, thanks.” I was feeling a little sick and I wanted to be alone. But Jordan lingered for a moment more. “It’s only half-past nine,” she said. I’d be damned if I’d go in; I’d had enough of all of them for one day, and suddenly that included Jordan too. She must have seen something of this in my expression, for she turned abruptly away and ran up the porch steps into the house. I sat down for a few minutes with my head in my hands, until I heard the phone taken up inside and the butler’s voice calling a taxi. Then I walked slowly down the drive away from the house, intending to wait by the gate. I hadn’t gone twenty yards when I heard my name and Gatsby stepped from between two bushes into the path. I must have felt pretty weird by that time, because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon. “What are you doing?” I inquired. “Just standing here, old sport.” Somehow, that seemed a despicable occupation. For all I knew he was going to rob the house in a moment; I wouldn’t have been surprised to see sinister faces, the faces of “Wolfshiem’s people,” behind him in the dark shrubbery.
注释摘要
这一小段发生在回东卵的车上，他们经过灰烬之谷，目击了车祸惨剧，然后又上路，直到布坎南家的房子从黑暗中浮现。汤姆把车停在门廊边，抬头看向二楼亮着灯的窗户，确认黛西已经到家了。下车后他对尼克说应该把他送回西卵才对，今晚已经没什么可做的了。他说话的语气变了，变得严肃而果断。走过月光下的碎石路时，他用几句话就利落地安排了接下来的事：他会打电话叫出租车送尼克回家，等…