Consider this passage from the end of the chapter:
They weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale—and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
Tom and Daisy are cut from the same cloth, so to speak. They both want to status and recognition that come from wealth, particularly old wealth. They are fashionable. When Daisy hears of Gatsby's illegal dealings, she begins to doubt him and to be turned off of him. Then, when the accident happens, Daisy and Gatsby are thrown further apart and Tom and Daisy closer together - conspiring together. Also, Daisy herself says earlier in the chapter that she does love Tom. So, faced with two men she loves, she chooses to stay with the one who a) has the respectable money; and b) to whom she is already married. It is the easier path.
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