Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small, reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he had ever really believed in its existence before.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby. Chapter 7, Gatsby is shocked and surprised on meeting Daisy’s child. Daisy conceals Pammy so well that upon her meeting with Gatsby she seems surreal, as if she were a figment of his imagination.