"Poor, poor dear Cat. And this was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other. Thank God for gas anyway..."
Here we see Hemingway reinstate the theme of Life. Catherine is giving birth to their child and he feels sorrow for her. And throughout the book many of the characters were always found trying to do and think of other things to take their minds off of the tragedy and what was actually going on. I believe that is why Henry says "Thank God for gas anyway." It's just another way of him taking his mind briefly off of reality, even if it is just for a split second.
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