A minor example is when Gatsby kisses Tom right in the other room. Her friend, Jordan Baker, chides her behavior: "'You forget there's a lady present'" (116). However, Daisy's carelessness comes to even greater excess. While driving Gatsby's car at very high speed, he hits and kills Myrtle Wilson. Afterwards, he allows Gatsby to take the blame without even apologizing, goodbye, thank you, etc. Both Daisy and Tom clearly demonstrate an excess of this type of behavior, as described by Nick: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy: they destroyed things and creatures and then retreated into their money or their immense carelessness, or whatever pit that held them together, and they let other people clean up the mess they had made"