A lesser example is when she kisses Gatsby with Tom right in the other room. His friend, Jordan Baker, castigates his behavior: “'You forget there's a lady present'” (116). Yet Daisy's recklessness is accompanied by even greater excess. While driving Gatsby's car at very high speed, she hits and kills Myrtle Wilson. Subsequently, she allows Gatsby to take responsibility without even apologizing, goodbye, thank you, etc. Both Daisy and Tom clearly demonstrate an excess of this type of behavior, as Nick describes: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy: they broke things and creatures, then fell back on their money or their great carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."