‘I’ve left Daisy’s house,’ she said. ‘I’m at Hempstead and I’m going down to Southampton this afternoon.’
Probably it had been tactful to leave Daisy’s house, but the act annoyed me and her next remark made me rigid.
‘You weren’t so nice to me last night.’
‘How could it have mattered then?’
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, Chapter 8. Following Myrtle’s tragic death, Jordan Baker’s casual, devil-may-care attitude is no longer attractive to Nick. In fact he is disgusted that she is so unaffected by Myrtle’s death, and all she is concerned about from the previous day is that Nick wasn’t attentive enough to her.