1 I called up Daisy from the office next morning and invited her to come to tea.
2 When I left his office the sky had turned dark and I got back to West Egg in a drizzle.
3 "It was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the Armistice," he continued.
4 Picking up Wilson like a doll Tom carried him into the office, set him down in a chair and came back.
5 She nodded and moved away from him just as George Wilson emerged with two chairs from his office door.
6 For a while the door of the office was open and everyone who came into the garage glanced irresistibly through it.
7 He drew me into his office, remarking in a reverent voice that it was a sad time for all of us, and offered me a cigar.
8 Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.
9 "Oh, sure," agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls.
10 Some words of this conversation must have reached Wilson swaying in the office door, for suddenly a new theme found voice among his gasping cries.
11 I never saw this great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him--with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's office.
12 The butler gave me his office address on Broadway and I called Information, but by the time I had the number it was long after five and no one answered the phone.
13 It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.
14 Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool as if a divot from a green golf links had come sailing in at the office window but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.
15 It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.
16 At first I couldn't find the source of the high, groaning words that echoed clamorously through the bare garage--then I saw Wilson standing on the raised threshold of his office, swaying back and forth and holding to the doorposts with both hands.
17 The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.
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