Afterward he and Maury were going to the theatre--Caramel would

probably trot home and work on his book, which ought to be finished

pretty soon.

"I should think the appearance of the black note-book would prove that

he's going to life."

Well, what I was going to say was that my book is going to

start a new prose movement, a sort of renaissance."

With the concordancer we found three uses of the present and past continuous is going, was going in Fitzgerald's, The Beautiful and the Damned.