“I beg your pardon.”

 
Gatsby’s butler was suddenly standing beside us.


“Miss Baker?” he inquired. “I beg your pardon, but Mr. Gatsby would like to speak to you alone.”

“With me?” she exclaimed in surprise.

 “Yes, madame.”

She got up slowly, raising her eyebrows at me in astonishment, and followed the butler toward the house. I noticed that she wore her evening-dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes—there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.

 – The Great Gatsby (1925) by F.Scott.Fitzgerald

Bibliography:
Fitzgerald, F.Scott. The Great Gatsby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.

Image Credit: 
Illustration of one-piece golf dress from Bonwit Teller catalogue, 1925, from fuzzylizzie.com