The Importance of Understanding

"I knew I had seen you somewhere before," Gatsby said. "Wanna go with me, old sport? Just near the shore along the sound?" Mike Tomdask's name was on the tip of his tongue when Jordan looked around and smiled. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it that you may come across four or five times in life. 'It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood'