The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby, to bid them a hasty goodbye
I'd like to know if "them" in the phrase "to bid them a hasty goodbye" in the chapter Nine from The Great Gatsby refers to "a few Chicago friends" or to "those who went farther than Chicago":
One of my most vivid memories is of coming back West from prep school and later from college at Christmas time. Those who went farther than Chicago would gather in the old dim Union Station at six o'clock of a December evening with a few Chicago friends already caught up into their own holiday gayeties to bid them a hasty goodbye.
Thank you.