"God's nightgown!" "Who'd have thought" "I'd ever set foot in savannah again?" "Father will be thrilled to pieces that you have." "To pieces." "You know what pa used to say about grandfather" "Pierre robillard wouldn't give you the time of day" "If your watch was broke." "Even mother laughed at that." "She couldn't deny it, not even about her own father." "I suppose father never was" "Very fond of gerald o'hara, if truth be told." "At least I can see my other kin while I'm here." "What kin is that?" "My o'hara kin." "Perhaps you better not make note of that intention" "To your grandfather, scarlett." "Perhaps not." "Will mind your manners, won't you, scarlett?" "Father is quite old and considerably frail." "Considerably." "Wouldn't do to tax his declining strength" "With your sometimes- how shall I put it" "Quite forthright manner." "Will it be necessary to genuflect" "When he grants me audience?" "That's what I'm talking about, scarlett." "You are just being naughty on purpose." "On purpose." "Well, jerome, we're here." "We're here." "Welcome again to savannah and home, ma'am." "Thank you." "Jerome, this is our niece, mrs." "Butler." "Yes, I remember miz butler." "How are you, jerome?" "I'm well and fine, ma'am," "And hoping' the same for yourself." "Jerome!" "Is that them come?" "The mister's had his sleeping chamber relocated" "To the parlor floor of the house, ma'am." "The staircase had become a considerable trial for him to manage." "Jerome!" "Yes, sir, mister, coming right along now." "Doesn't sound all that frail to me." "He's asking for you now, dearest." "I'll be just a minute, aunt eulie." "He could scarcely believe that you were here." "I can scarcely believe it myself." "You will be nice now, won't you, scarlett?" "I will, aunt eulie, I promise." "Oh, bless you." "I don't know why I'm caring how I look anyhow." "He's probably blind as a bat by now." "I'll try to keep my promise," "But if you hear any shooting, it'll be me." "Hello, grandfather." "Are you awake?" "It's scarlett, grandfather." "I had hoped that, in time," "You would come to favor less your father and more your mother." "I see I am to be disappointed in that wish." "I guess so." "I'm more o'hara than robillard, grandfather." "Always have been, if I dare say so here." "I've never known you not to say whatever you dared." "Sit." "I promised aunt eulie" "I'd be on my best behavior." "You have grown older." "So have you." "But not to such advantage." "Why, grandfather," "Am I mishearing a remark" "That sounded so breathtakingly close to a compliment?" "To what do we owe" "The dubious pleasure of your presence here in savannah?" "That's more like it." "Aunt eulalie and aunt pauline invited me" "To celebrate your birthday." "It seemed an appropriate opportunity for me" "To attend to a few other matters here." "Other matters?" "One personal, the other more like business." "As to the business" "Have you come to beg money again?" "I never begged you for money, grandfather." "I only asked for a loan to feed my starving family" "After the yankees passed through" "Leaving nothing but ruin and death behind them." "I got along without your help." "I am now a woman of considerable means." "And I'm here to spend some of that" "On what one of my sisters saw fit to give away." "I would have to wonder" "What it might be" "That your sister would value so little" "And you so much." "Tara." "Ahh-ha ha." "Fabled tara." "There's no fable to it." "It's home." "At least it was" "Till careen decided to give away her 1/3 share in it." "Seems she turned severely religious for some reason." "It's her intention to become a nun." "Careen always was kind of flighty." "To be a catholic, of course," "Requires in the first instance" "A certain degree of mental instability." "You made mention of some personal reason for your presence here." "I'm going to search out my relatives." "Relatives?" "I am the last of the robillard line in savannah." "I know that." "O'haras, I mean." "Ohh!" "The peasants?" "Maybe some of pa's brothers are still alive." "Pa would like it if he knew" "I was looking up my long-lost kin." "Did you really hate pa as much as he said?" "When my youngest and most cherished daughter" "Wed herself to gerald o'hara," "There was no visible bottom" "To the pit of disastrous folly" "Into which she flung both herself" "And the honorable name of robillard." "I guess pa wasn't exaggerating." "May I ask who it was" "Witnessed this supposed indiscretion on scarlett's part?" "Supposed?" "She was seen entering the drummond hotel" "With a man she herself later admitted to my mother was ashley wilkes." "As for who saw them, my mother declined to say." "And did this nameless accuser" "Also peek through the keyhole?" "You don't have to take this too seriously, sally." "How do you know" "That what went on between scarlett and wilkes" "Is what you're thinking?" "That's a considerably naive idea" "Coming from someone of your experience." "Naive, hell." "It's fair." "Since when has scarlett ever deserved fair?" "The woman was forever inclined to rash behavior" "When in a state of mental distress." "You sure must've put her in one." "I believe scarlett's never entirely gotten over" "Her feelings for ashley wilkes" "And she decided to do something about that." "It would be decent of you to hear her side." "Do you know where she's gone?" "No." "I'll have to find out." "You are getting her side then?" "No." "I'm gonna divorce her." "I'll take one of those." "Yes, ma'am." "Hello." "Morning, ma'am." "And ain't it a fine one?" "It is." "I'd like to see mr." "O'hara." "You're seeing him." "How might I be of service?" "Actually, the mr." "O'hara I'm looking for would be more elderly." "Mr. Andrew o'hara or mr." "James o'hara." "Perhaps I've come to the wrong store." "You've come to the right one." "I'm their nephew, jamie o'hara at your service." "Oh, my goodness, then you're my cousin." "Am I indeed?" "Certainly one not known to me." "I'm katie scarlett," "Gerald's daughter from atlanta." "No doubt you don't know it," "But my mother passed on." "That was your auntie bridget." "God rest her dear soul." "Also uncle andy's wife as well, auntie una." "Ah, took the heart out of poor uncle andy." "Followed her within a month." "Uncle james, then, is he gone, too?" "He's not even thinking of going." "Fair chance he'll outlive the lot of us." "He'll be beside himself to see you, katie scarlett." "He's getting on in years," "But he's still able to pull his weight." "And how." "He's living with us now," "Me and my wife maureen and kids." "There's eight of them." "At least that was the count when I left this morning." "And here's that very house, be it ever so humble." "But we've all come from a lot worse, hmm?" "And no complaints now." "God rest his soul," "I always said your father was the best of the lot of us." "Have you not heard me say it, jamie?" "I have." "And often." "The runt of the litter he was," "But hard as nails..." "And o'hara to the smallest bone in his body." "A fine small man was gerald..." "Much as meself." "Ha ha ha." "I suppose you know" "How he come by that grand plantation of his, eh?" "Playing poker with my money, that's how." "And did I ever see a nickel of it back?" "I did not." "Did he ever happen to relate" "How he come to leave ireland, katie scarlett?" "I would guess upwards of about a hundred times." "Fled with a price on his head, he did." "One blow of his fist," "And down went that english landlord's rent agent," "Never to rise again in this world." "A father to make a woman proud, I should say." "And so I was..." "And am." "Here's to a dutiful and loving daughter, then." "May every man be blessed with one of her like, and five would be better." "And I'll add a welcome for cousin scarlett" "To our hearts and to our homes." "May she never be out of the one," "Nor long absent from the other." "I'm more touched than I can find words to say." "Well, they're lying about someplace." "I'm sure you'll find them." "Right." "Enough of the feasting." "Let's have some fiddling'." "Oh, goodness, scarlett!" "Are you all right, darlin'?" "Oh, get her a drink." "Oh, my dear." "Are you all right?" "You simply must let us summon a physician." "You're just being stubborn." "Stubborn." "I'm fine." "I just overdid it, that's all." "I'm recovering quite nicely without the aid of a doctor." "The best thing you could do for me" "Would be to stop standing there wringing your hands and just shoo." "If you feel the slightest further bit indisposed," "Call for, uh..." "Pansy!" "Yes, and she'd send for the doctor." "Shoo!" "Shoo!" "Shoo!" "Uh..." "Uh, scarlett..." "Shoo!" "Uh, y-yes." "You're still looking kind of purplish, miss scarlett." "Are you sure" "I'm not ill, pansy." "I'm..." "Indisposed." "It must be suppertime." "Go get your supper." "Can I bring you something up?" "Not right now." "Maybe later." "Go and have your supper." "My beautiful," "Enchanting, magical little..." "Indisposition." "You're just going to have to go on being" "The teeniest little bit of a fib for a while." "I know you don't mind," "Considering the good cause it's in." "The good cause being just the exact right time" "To introduce you to your daddy." "I don't know when the right time will be," "But I'll just have to content myself" "With imagining the expression" "On the handsome visage of mr." "Rhett butler" "When he finds out I'm giving him another sweet life..." "For the one we so tragically lost." "Oh, my darlin' little indisposition," "I pray you're a girl." "Please, please, be a girl." "Morning, boss." "Morning." "Hmm." "I'd say they're an improvement" "Over the last lot." "And right to say it." "There's 10 more coming from new york within the week." "And a thousand rounds." "That's all right, then." "Will I make the usual arrangements for the shipment?" "You will." "From the look of them," "I'd venture your hands haven't done kitchen work" "For quite some time, scarlett, if ever." "They've done far rougher things" "Than shell peas in their time, maureen." "Have they?" "You don't look it." "Are you rich, scarlett?" "Well, I guess you could say I'm pretty well off, yes." "So I says to jamie." "Carries herself rich, I says." "Not to mention stopping at the manse" "Of mr." "Pierre robillard, grand mucky-muck of savannah hoi polloi." "Shall I tell you how I got rich?" "I think I'd enjoy the telling." "Well..." "So I took the inheritance from my second husband" "If I'm late for lunch," "I must be in time for supper." "Colum!" "Ye devil!" "Not a word of warning." "I was hoping to catch you in the act." "Get away, you terrible man." "If I wasn't a priest," "Nothing would save you from my worldly attentions." "Blasphemer." "Now here's a surprise." "I'll bet me Sunday bonnet on that." "She's the landlord's daughter come for the rent." "Nothing of the kind." "She's scarlett o'hara butler," "Down from charleston to make the acquaintance of her savannah kin," "And long overdue it was." "Scarlett, say hello to father colum terence o'hara," "Here from ireland and another one of your cousins," "May god have mercy on you." "Pleasure to make your acquaintance, scarlett o'hara butler." "Well, bless me, father." "It's been a heck of a long time" "Since I've been to confession." "Happy birthday, father." "Happy birthday, grandfather." "Will you open your gifts in the drawing room, father?" "No." "Would you rather we brought them in here?" "I would not." "Where would you like to open your presents, grandfather?" "At a place of my choosing," "At a time of my choice," "And most certainly in private." "I suppose, after some considerable thought," "I might be able to imagine something sadder" "Than opening birthday presents alone," "But I doubt it." "Scarlett, good heavens." "I was hoping to enjoy your seeing what I got you." "Perhaps you will." "I mean me seeing you seeing it." "I know what you mean." "See what you've done?" "In absolute and certain knowledge" "That scarlett will not make her own apologies," "No matter how deeply owed," "May I beg your pardon" "In her stead, father?" "However much pauline and I may regret" "Having to return to charleston tomorrow, we can," "And certainly you may" "Take some modicum of comfort in knowing" "That scarlett will be returning with us." "I'll be staying." "I beg your pardon?" "I'll be staying on for a bit." "What are you saying?" "She says she'll be staying a while!" "Are you deaf?" "May one ask why, scarlett?" "I still haven't settled with the sisters of mercy" "About buying back careen's share of tara," "And I'm not leaving savannah till I do." "Besides, I'm just getting to know my o'hara relatives here," "And I'm in no hurry to stop knowing them so quick." "Well, if you remain in savannah," "Where will you stay?" "My o'hara kin would gladly have me stay with them," "But they don't have room for pansy," "And I can't get along without pansy," "Of course, I could go to a hotel." "There must be at least one decent accommodation in savannah." "Or I could just offer myself up" "To the good graces of grandfather robillard" "And hope he might provide shelter" "For the relatively brief time I'll be remaining." "Stay if you like." "It is a matter of supreme indifference to me." "See?" "I knew I'd be welcome." "Giddyup!" "Whoa." "Good morning." "Rhett!" "Well, good morning." "How are you this fine day, my dear?" "Quite fine this fine day, and yourself?" "I couldn't be better." "I see you've made the purchase of a new frock." "A frock?" "Why, no, it's" "There you go again, teasing me, rhett butler." "How might I make amends?" "I might find some forgiveness in my heart" "If you would offer me a ride to the library." "If it isn't too terribly bold of me to mention it," "I was sincerely sorry to hear" "Of the difficulties between you and mrs." "Butler." "Thank you." "As for boldness," "It happens to be a quality I admire in women." "That's very unusual." "In my experience," "Which of course has been quite limited," "I've observed that gentlemen are generally somewhat discomposed" "By any show of forthrightness in a lady." "I think gentlemen generally are." "I gather you don't count yourself in that company?" "In the company of gentlemen" "Or the company of gentlemen" "Discomposed by forthright ladies?" "Are you teasing me again?" "Why do you keep doing that?" "I seem unable to resist it, don't I?" "Maybe it's because of the charming, delightful manner" "With which you respond to it." "Daddy says you're something of a gambler." "I've played a hand of cards now and again." "Mother doesn't like daddy to gamble." "She says there's too much chance of losing." "If you don't chance the losing, you can't chance the winning." "Wish I could be that way sometimes." "What way?" "The way you said about gambling." "Sometimes I wish I could throw caution to the four winds," "Laugh at fate, let the chips fall where they may." "Maybe you will one day." "I can't imagine it." "Sometimes we need someone" "To help our imaginations along a bit." "Do you think so?" "I've often known that to be the case." "Always bearing in mind, of course," "That you risk the losing." "And chance the winning." "This is it." "What's the matter?" "Maybe I best wait outside." "Why?" "Being a baptist?" "Silly." "It's not a church." "It's a convent for nuns." "Even if it was a church," "You'd be perfectly free to go in." "Besides, they'd probably be delighted to get their hands on you." "The decision, of course," "Lies in the bishop's hands." "You can't accept my offer on your own?" "Out of the question." "I have to talk to the bishop now?" "Certainly not." "I'll present your suggestion to him on your behalf." "I wouldn't want to put you to all that trouble." "I'd be more than happy to speak to the bishop." "That would be impossible." "When will you talk to him?" "I have an appointment with bishop flynn three days hence." "Perhaps the opportunity will arise" "For me to convey your wishes to him." "He's irish?" "County meath, I believe." "Could you mention to him that my maiden name is o'hara?" "Just as a note" "Personal curiosity on my part, if I may?" "Go right ahead." "Should the bishop look favorably upon your request" "And agree to exchange our interest in tara" "For your generous donation to the sisters of mercy," "By my reckoning that still leaves" "The 1/3 share in the property" "Retained by your other sister." "Suellen." "Suellen, yes." "Which would effectively still deny you" "The full ownership you so passionately desire." "Your reckoning is right, sister." "I'll just have to think about that tomorrow." "Miss scarlett." "Oh, miss scarlett, wake up." "He wants to see you right this minute, he says." "What?" "Who wants me?" "Him." "What's the matter, grandfather?" "My breakfast is unsatisfactory." "You got me out of bed for that?" "I got you out of bed to do something about it." "What have I got to do with your breakfast?" "Send it back and tell them to bring what you want." "You tell them." "What am I, some kind of hired help?" "Order your own breakfast." "I'm going back to bed." "The bed to which you believe you are returning, young woman," "Belongs to me." "You occupy it only by my grace and favor." "Is that a threat?" "It is a pertinent observation." "Maybe I'll talk to your cook about her grits." "I wonder if you have noticed" "The portrait of your grandmother robillard" "In the drawing room." "I have." "She was a stunningly beautiful woman." "You favor her remarkably." "Why, thank you, grandfather." "Would that you might resemble her in other respects." "What other respects?" "She was a woman of consummate grace," "Of great gentleness and gentility." "I guess I wasn't in school" "The day they handed those out." "Still..." "I suppose there might be something to be said" "For..." "Spirit." "There's folks who think so." "I shouldn't wonder." "Grace, gentility and all that" "Those are easy things to take to." "I guess spirit takes some getting used to by some" "Before they can appreciate it." "You may be right." "What precisely is wrong" "With the grits?" "Where is your parish?" "I have no parish." "Who'd trust him with one?" "Only a fool or the devil." "Are you a missionary priest?" "Laboring to ease the suffering of the poor and bereft." "There's no one like him for it." "You must travel quite a bit." "Oh, wherever I'm called." "But I'm never long away from ireland." "Do you have any influence with bishop flynn" "Here in savannah?" "A hard man, the good bishop," "And not easily influenced." "Why do you ask?" "He turned me down" "About buying back careen's share of tara." "I mentioned me wanting to buy it." "Turned you down, has he?" "I can hardly keep from crying" "Every time I think about it." "It would have meant the world to me." "I wonder if the bishop" "Might be persuaded otherwise." "By who?" "Are you aware there's a cathedral" "Being erected here in savannah?" "No." "Is there?" "There is." "And the foreman of all the bricklayers" "Laboring on this magnificent structure" "Is a man called tommy shannon," "A good friend to yours truly" "And has been these many years." "He's also the husband to my sister pidge." "Tommy could be persuaded to let it be known" "In an indirect manner" "That a considerable slowdown in the progress of the work might occur" "Unless the bishop were to reconsider his unreasonable attitude." "That's blackmail." "Of course, if it doesn't sit well" "I didn't say it didn't sit well." "Family..." "It's a grand thing." "If I were your lawyer, rhett," "This document would never have been drawn up." "Why not?" "Why?" "It flies in the face" "Of every moral tenet that we hold dear to our hearts." "My lawyer did mention" "It was a somewhat unusual action for an individual to take." "Somewhat unusual?" "Heavens, rhett," "It is almost unheard of!" "Maybe it should be heard of more often." "Have you no respect whatsoever for the sanctity of marriage?" "I guess that'd depend on the marriage, henry." "I can think of three or four right now" "I'd say don't have much sanctity in them." "I'd have to add my own one to that number." "Have you informed scarlett of these intentions?" "I would have if I could." "I don't know where she is." "I wish with all my heart" "You would reconsider this drastic action." "It so violates everything we believe in." "I'd appreciate it if you'd forward those papers to your client" "With the utmost dispatch, henry." "Oh..." "Poor scarlett." "If there's one thing scarlett isn't," "It's poor." "You wanted to see me, grandfather?" "First I wish to thank you" "For your birthday gift to me." "You're welcome." "I'm glad it fits." "I apologize for losing my temper the other day" "And the result of that." "I am 94 years old." "You sure don't look it." "Don't carry your remorse" "To the extent of desperate flattery." "Then I take it back." "I have no reasonable expectation of living much longer." "I have a request to make to you." "It is my wish that you remain with me here" "For the duration of my life." "Remain with you?" "I don't understand, grandfather." "If you will remain in this house as a chatelaine," "Attend to my comforts," "Conform with my wishes," "I am prepared to designate you" "As my sole heir." "My estate, as you surely are aware," "Is not inconsiderable." "I'm a married woman, grandfather." "I expect I shall be able to tolerate your marital status." "I have responsibilities and obligations." "I can't just walk away from them." "And considering all those considerations," "I'm sure you'll understand that no matter how generous your offer" "Or however much I'm sincerely touched by it," "It would be out of the question for me to accept." "As yet you do not know how generous my offer is." "My estate is presently valued" "In excess of $500,000." "Half a million dollars?" "And you my sole heir." "I didn't think any one person had that much money." "You were mistaken." "Half a million dollars?" "I agree it is a sum that may bear certain repetition," "But we need not belabor the point, scarlett." "You'd give me all that money" "If I stayed on here till you passed on?" "Under the conditions of my needs and wishes." "Well, what is your answer?" "No." "My answer has to be no." "You refuse my proposal?" "I'm afraid I just have to." "How dare you!" "How dare you turn up your papist, peasant nose" "At the opportunity to become mistress" "Of this great house" "And attendant to its master!" "Even supposing I was able to tolerate" "Your intolerable manners" "Which I most definitely would not" "The fact that I can turn down your proposition" "With hardly a twinge of regret" "Is some indication to me" "That maybe I'm just beginning to think" "There might be more important things than money after all." "I hope you don't mind me saying this," "But I'm a bit confused." "I don't doubt that maureen is as well." "Here's a bill of divorcement" "From the husband you've told us" "Is dying for your return to his side in charleston." "There is a bit of confusion there." "I fibbed." "Oh." "Then that's clarified." "Then this document's more of a shock than a surprise." "No." "It's as much one as the other." "I never dreamed that" "I never imagined rhett would..." "What am I going to do?" "There now, love." "It's him that's committed the sin of divorce, not you." "And it's him who'll suffer the wrath of god for it." "I'm pregnant." "Glory be to god." "Is the man such a blackguard" "As to divorce the woman carrying his child?" "He doesn't know." "What are you saying, scarlett?" "We had a silly old quarrel." "We weren't on speaking terms." "I was waiting for the right time to tell him." "That'd be about now." "Never!" "Never, never, never!" "Divorce me?" "Divorce me, will he?" "There may come a day when he finds out I've borne him another child," "But it'll be over my wizened and lifeless body." "Your mind's in too much turmoil" "To be thinking clearly." "It's quite clear you won't be able to keep the truth from him" "Once your baby's come." "He could hear it from someone else." "Far better if it's from you." "If I'm far away," "There'll be nobody to tell him." "What's on your mind, scarlett?" "Far away where?" "When I was a girl," "My pa was forever going on about ireland." "Maybe it's time I saw what he was going on about." "You're for ireland, then?" "I'm for ireland." "It's the most breathtaking country I've ever laid eyes on," "Just like pa always described it." "We always thought he was gilding the truth a bit." "No need to gild it, is there?" "I never thought I'd ever see a place more beautiful than georgia." "Before the war, of course." "It's like another world altogether." "It's so..." "So ancient." "Nothing like ancient." "200 years maybe." "Fairly new." "I adore it." "I simply adore it." "Are we far from uncle daniel's house?" "Not far now." "Let me just go over it." "There's grandmother, katie scarlett, whose namesake I am." "Never, never did I imagine I'd meet her face-to-face." "There's uncle daniel, your pa," "And my pa's eldest brother," "And there's my cousin- don't tell me-timothy" "And his two sisters." "Jehoshaphat, how many cousins do I have?" "That's kathleen and, um, brigid." "Bridie." "Bridie." "Did I get them all?" "That's them all beneath that roof." "Will there be room for me beneath it, too?" "They'll see to that well enough." "It's your possessions I've some doubts about." "I guess I overdid it," "But I'll surely find a place of my own very soon." "My clothes and I won't be a bother to anyone, I promise." "I'm doubtful we'll be able to locate you a house" "To equal what you're accustomed to, scarlett." "That's all right." "This is a new life." "I've got it." "Come on, get up." "Go on." "Everything out." "Don't put that with the rest." "Come on, sean, hurry up." "Stand back." "There's a bit of trouble here." "I won't be long." "Let me see." "Stay in the coach." "Don't get out of it now." "Come on, everything out." "Get the table." "Move along, paddy, move along." "You, priest." "Back in your box and get on your way." "I'll just have a word with the woman, captain." "You wouldn't deny her a bit of comfort, would you?" "Don't fret." "Don't fret." "Please do something." "I'll send donnelly over for your things." "We'll find a place for you." "Stand clear there." "Put your backs into it, men!" "Come on, lads!" "Come on, boys, you're supposed to be knocking..." "Come on, harder!" "Harder!" "Move it!" "And again!" "Swing it!" "There she goes!" "Harder!" "Come on!" "Torch it!" "Stay in the coach, miss." "Colum, what in heaven's name is happening?" "They've destroyed that poor woman's house." "It's an eviction, scarlett." "She hasn't the rent money." "Why did they destroy it?" "So's no one will live in it." "I don't understand." "The owner's english." "The english own ireland." "You understand that, don't you?" "Sort of." "The owner doesn't want to rent it anymore." "He's doing what they call organizing his property." "First the rent is raised beyond the possibility of being paid." "Then the house is burnt down." "Then the land is set to grazing cattle." "That's where the profits are." "And that's ireland, too." "No beauty about it whatsoever." "I thought the driver's name was brendan." "I beg your pardon?" "When you introduced me to the driver, you called him brendan," "But that soldier called him paddy." "We're all paddies to the english, scarlett." "It's comparable to your despicable term "nigger."" "I never used that word in my life." "Pa would've flayed me raw." "I wasn't referring to you in particular." "I'm glad to hear it." "I must say, "paddy" doesn't sound all that bad," "Not as bad as that other." "You'd have to be irish." "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Glory, what was that?" "In far too much of a hurry to be irish." "That'd be one of them." "English?" "You're getting the lay of the land." "Whoa." "Milord." "Have you brung her?" "Hello, everybody." "Have you turned to stone," "Or are you going to give the girl the welcome" "She came halfway around the world for?" "Young katie scarlett o'hara." "You honor my house, and I bid you welcome." "You must be brigid." "Bridie." "You'll be stopping in my room." "And..." "Tim." "That's right." "Hello, tim." "I'll get your bags." "That's katie scarlett." "Gerald's girl, is it?" "Come at last." "And I've lived to see the day." "Glory be to god." "I got your note." "Evidently." "I came as soon as I could." "Soon enough." "Did you miss me?" "No doubt you've missed this." "Here." "Have a look." "That's disgusting." "Take it away." "Get undressed." "Would you like a cup of tea, scarlett?" "I'd love it." "Kathleen, I got the feeling" "My wardrobe might not be appropriate" "For living in ireland." "Your clothes are beautiful, scarlett," "But you might be right in their lack of fitness." "Would you like the lend of something of mine?" "Thank you, kathleen." "That's very generous of you," "But I think I better do some shopping." "We could go into town." "I can't today." "Colum's coming by." "Is he?" "Where are you off to, then?" "He wouldn't tell me." "Adventuring, he says." "Well, come on, then." "We'll find you something more fit for adventuring than that." "Are you going to tell me where we're going" "Before we get there?" "I am not." "If you weren't a priest and my cousin," "I could wheedle it out of you." "Wouldn't I enjoy the wheedling" "Were I not your cousin and a priest." "As for your priesthood," "I'll have to ask you to do something" "Which I guess will be difficult for you." "And what might that be?" "I have to tell a little fib" "And ask you not to tell anybody" "That's what it is." "A fib?" "A little white lie that won't hurt anybody." "I'm not asking you to tell it." "I'm asking you..." "I'm just asking you not to say anything." "Will I choke on these words I'm not to speak?" "I don't see why." "I don't want to be a divorced woman bearing a child." "How can you not be that" "If it's what you are?" "I can be a widow." "I'm going to tell people" "My husband recently passed on." "What'll be the point of that?" "I don't want to be a divorced woman" "Bearing the child of a husband that threw her over." "I simply cannot bear it." "Nor will you have to." "Hush now." "You won't tell?" "It'll be our secret." "Thank you, colum." "Thank you." "And there'll not be a man or woman" "That'll ever wheedle it out of me." "This is tara." "Tara?" "The first tara," "Whose memory your father brought with him to america." "You see that row of ancient stones over there?" "That's all we've left" "Of the great banqueting hall" "That was tara 10 centuries ago." "Here's where the o'haras sung first, scarlett." "And the monaghans, the mahoneys," "O'gormans, o'briens," "The donahues, the carmodys," "The heroes." "All the heroes." "This was tara." "I feel so..." "Strange, colum." "It does that to some." "What is it?" "Time." "What are you up to?" "Just something silly, I guess." "If only pa could know where I just stood." "He does, of course." "I wish I could believe that." "Give it time." "What's this place?" "Ballyhara." "All this land round is known as ballyhara." "200 years ago, it was our people's land." "O'hara land." "That's the big house of ballyhara." "Does no one live in it?" "No one lives there." "No one will." "What do you mean?" "Why?" "There's a dark history on it." "Tell me." "You've had enough folklore for one day, darlin'." "We don't want to overdo it, do we?" "That's very sad." "We had no idea." "You have our deepest condolences, dear scarlett." "Thank you." "What a tragedy." "The husband passed on whose child you're carrying." "It would appear I wasn't meant for marriage." "All my husbands have died." "All?" "You've been to the altar more than once?" "Three times, as a matter of fact." "And lost them, every one." "Glory be to god, it's like a curse." "As like as makes no difference." "My first two husbands were nothing like rhett." "Not to speak ill of the dead," "But darling rhett..." "What a man he was." "He could make a girl dizzy just thinking about him." "My other two husbands were fine and decent men," "But 10 of 'em couldn't have made 1 rhett butler." "There's bashing a tin pot," "And then there's music." "I believe being divorced by her husband" "Would be one of the most devastating things" "That could happen to a woman." "It depends on the woman." "As to scarlett, she can do with being devastated." "Is it unseemly of me to speak about it?" "If it is, I'll" "Not a bit." "Everyone else is." "Heavens, I can't bite my tongue any longer." "I just can't." "It was me." "I beg your pardon, my dear?" "Who saw her." "Scarlett in the hotel." "I saw scarlett with the man I now know is ashley wilkes." "I saw them." "I was the one who told." "You don't say." "I've been driven to distraction" "Thinking that's the reason you were divorcing her." "Because I told that I saw scarlett." "Scarlett and I have been at loggerheads" "For some considerable time now, anne." "You don't hate me, then?" "I could fully understand if you did," "Although it would break my heart." "Oh, slow down, honey." "I appreciate you mentioning it." "I've spent years with a woman" "Whose concept of the truth was severely lackadaisical." "I find you a real refreshing change." "You do?" "Really?" "You bet." "I feel like a great big hunk of solid rock" "Has been lifted off my back." "I'm quite pleased to relieve you of it." "Still and all, weren't you just perfectly furious" "When you heard about scarlett?" "Scarlett hasn't always played by the rules, anne," "But then, neither have I." "But she's a woman." "She certainly is." "I've thought about what you were saying this afternoon." "What did I say?" "About rules." "Playing by the rules." "In regard to scarlett." "Uh-huh." "Well, I got the impression" "Maybe I'm mistaken, I could be totally mistaken" "But I got the impression you were suggesting" "A woman has the same sort of prerogatives to take as a man" "By way of behaving." "Long as she can be sensible about it." "About what?" "Whatever comes of her claiming the prerogative." "Like what you were saying about gambling" "And chancing losing?" "And winning." "And winning." "Yes." "A woman like that's particularly attractive" "To a certain kind of man." "She is?" "What do you think about that?" "About what?" "About taking your prerogative" "And the risks that come with it." "I guess I don't know how I feel about it." "I don't know that I've got a prerogative to take." "Sure, you do." "I do?" "No question about you having it." "Only a question about you taking it." "Hello there." "Hello." "What are you doing?" "Doing?" "I'm looking around." "You're not irish." "I'm american." "From the southern portion" "Of that troubled land, I take it." "Georgia." "Ah." "You're among the vanquished" "In the recent unpleasantness between the states." "We lost the war, mister." "Nobody vanquished us." "I mean no offense, mrs..." "Butler." "My full name" "And the one I prefer to go by is scarlett o'hara butler." "I'm getting a crick in my neck looking at you." "In america, a gentleman dismounts when addressing a lady." "He also generally introduces himself" "Unless he has some nefarious reason not to do so." "Fenton." "Fenton what?" "Actually, I'm the earl of fenton." "That's some magnificent piece of horseflesh" "You're riding there, earl." "You know something of horses, do you?" "More than something." "This isn't mine." "It belongs to my uncle." "I'll be getting myself a proper horse real soon." "Yes." "I should say that might be advisable." "This land once belonged to my family, the o'haras." "You don't say." "Maybe some of it will again." "And how might that come about?" "It's called ballyhara." "Yes, I know." "Do you happen to know who owns it?" "As a matter of fact, I do." "Why do you ask?" "Just curious." "How much land goes with it?" "1,200 acres." "That's a nice piece of property." "It's a wreck of a place." "Have you been inside?" "I was just looking for a way in." "Follow me." "Must've been a grand house" "Before it was left to go to wrack and ruin." "Do you know anything of the history of ballyhara?" "I get the impression something unpleasant happened," "But I don't know what." "It was built by an englishman, of course." "The house passed from generation to generation" "Until the time of the famine." "Are you familiar with the famine here in ireland?" "My pa told us all about it." "The then lord of ballyhara" "Was unable, it seems," "To bear the horrors of starvation and death." "He bought a ship" "To provide free passage to america for his tenants," "Their families," "Anyone who cared to take advantage" "Of his pity and largess." "Many did." "The exact number was never known," "Surely in the hundreds," "But they all drowned when the ship went down" "In the first heavy sea encountered." "Oh, my lord." "Not long after," "The lord of ballyhara was found in the stable," "Bound hand and foot and hung from a rafter." "The act, of course," "Of a handful of demented paddies bound on revenge." "Of course, there was retribution for the murder." "Five men from the village" "Were chosen at random and hanged." "Hanged?" "By who?" "By the legal representatives" "Of the british crown, of course." "That was all 30 years ago." "The house hasn't been occupied since." "The local witchery has it, inevitably," "That the house is haunted." "Well, considering that story," "If any place had a right to be haunted," "I guess it would be ballyhara." "And should we have a chance to meet again after today," "Don't you dare use the word paddy in my presence again." "Have I encountered a fenian heart" "In an american breast, then?" "A what?" "The word's unfamiliar to you?" "Fenian?" "The fenian brotherhood," "A secret irish society" "Dedicated to the violent and bloody overthrow" "Of british rule in ireland," "Knowing full well the mayhem inherent in that hopeless wish." "I don't want anything to do with politics." "That's very wise of you." "Ghosts or no ghosts," "I'd still like to speak to the owner." "You are." "The man who was hanged was my father." "May I offer you some lunch, mrs." "Butler?" "We aren't far from fenton hall." "The way it looks now reminds me of our homes" "After the yankees passed through," "Except the state ballyhara's in" "Is the result of nothing more than neglect." "Anyone can see what a beautiful place" "It must have been once." "I know how you feel about the english," "But they sure know how to build houses." "What's this I hear about it being haunted?" "Has anyone actually seen a ghost at ballyhara?" "Now I know what's different about supper tonight" "I'm the only one talking." "What's going on?" "Something happened?" "Did somebody die?" "Are we going to sit here like lumps" "Or will we have it out?" "You're known to have been consorting" "With the master of fenton hall today, scarlett." "Consorting?" "What's that supposed to mean, consorting?" "I met him by accident at ballyhara," "And he invited me home for lunch." "How did you know about it?" "Scarlett, there's nothing happens here" "That the whole county doesn't know about" "By the fall of dark." "Best to keep it in mind for future referral." "Now, look here." "I'm real fond of all of you," "And I have the greatest respect" "For your feelings about the english." "But I have a slight objection" "About being told who I can talk to." "And right she is." "Miss scarlett's got nothing to do with our troubles." "Can she be among us" "And have nothing to do with 'em?" "It's her decision to make." "Stop talking about me as though I were somewhere else." "But you're not somewhere else, darlin'," "And that's the point of it." "I don't care about politics." "Politics!" "Is it politics you call it, woman?" "Father!" "Nothing was e'er heard any the better for shouting." "Yes, that's what I call it." "I've seen what it can do." "From fort sumter to the terrible day" "General lee handed over his sword" "At appomattox courthouse." "And millions dead between." "And ruination and despair." "I've had my bellyful," "And I'll have no more!" "I'm sorry for shouting." "Call it politics if that's your need, scarlett," "But what we're about here is human suffering." "After the hanging and the murders," "Fenton's mother took him and his sister away" "To live in England." "That's still his real home place." "But five years or so ago," "He bought fenton hall, as he came to call it." "He passes a fair bit of time there." "I get the impression he's not well liked." "No more or less than the rest of 'em," "But you shouldn't encourage an association with him." "God's nightgown!" "You, too?" "I'm not encouraging anything with him." "All's well, then." "Home, sweet home..." "Should you choose to call it that." "There's a sleeping chamber there." "It could do with a few more sticks of furniture." "Will it do, do you think?" "It'll do just fine, colum." "Now, where can I buy a good horse and a trap?" "Whoa." "Evening." "You're getting what?" "It's my duty to marry her, belle." "Jumping jones!" "You're gonna tell me" "You got that girl in the family way?" "Of course not." "Then what do you mean, it's your duty?" "I told you." "I compromised her." "You didn't force yourself on her, did you?" "You know better than to ask that." "I sure do, and I apologize." "Is she ragging on you" "To make an honest woman of her?" "Maybe she's making an honest man of me." "Oh, rhett..." "Gonna be terrible for your reputation" "If that ever gets around." "Terrible." "They're all just adorable, mrs." "Scanlon." "This one especially." "When's the baby coming?" "November." "Ladies?" "Good morning, father." "Colum." "Is she buying out the shop?" "Just baby stuff thus far, but I'm still hoping." "I'm only pulling your leg." "I should hope so" "After what I bought for myself not two weeks ago." "No one could complain of your costume, mrs." "Butler." "I can't decide." "I'll take them all." "And there's the proof of it." "Come on." "I need your help." "Good morning, ma'am." "How much will you take for ballyhara?" "Are you quite serious?" "Let's find out." "Have you heard?" "Have you heard?" "Heard what?" "It's..." "Ballyhara!" "Have you heard?" "The o'hara woman has just made purchase of ballyhara" "And a thousand acres with it!" "Have you been doing your drinking elsewhere today?" "O'brien must've been talking to the little people again." "But it's the truth!" "I've had it from the lips of father colum himself!" "Would you call him a liar?" "If you're pulling our legs," "We'll hang you from the rafters by both of yours." "May I be struck dead" "If I'm not telling the truth." "I believe he is." "And there's plenty of work" "For every man jack as wants it," "Putting it back to its former state." "And farms to be had" "At rents that'll never rise!" "That's her promise." "Well, here's to scarlett o'hara, then." "God bless her rare soul" "Who's took back what was took from us" "And made it irish once more!" "Yay!" "Yay!" "Yay!" "Now's as good a time as any." "Consider the risk in trusting her." "Where's the risk, man?" "Do you supposed she'll go running to the barracks" "Hollering sedition?" "There's no chance of that." "She might turn us down." "What do you think, colum?" "I think the risk's more hers than ours." "How do you figure that?" "Were she to be discovered helping us..." "She'd know that risk." "It's for her to decide." "I say now's the time." "Are you having relations with the o'hara woman?" "Don't be impertinent." "I was only wondering." "You're not here to wonder." "There's some whispering it about" "As to you and her." "Be quiet." "I want to go now." "Not yet." "No!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Come on, move it." "We're doing it!" "What are you doing?" "What's going on here?" "Scarlett, we're being evicted!" "Evicted?" "What the devil for?" "Where's uncle daniel and tim?" "Someone's gone to get them." "I needn't inquire as to your identity." "I presume you're the american woman." "You presume right." "What are you doing to these people?" "I'm executing an order" "On behalf of her majesty's government" "For the eviction of persons resident on this property" "For their having fallen in arrears on the rent." "Now, stand aside, please, miss." "Are you in arrears, kathleen?" "God help us, we are, scarlett." "How much?" "I beg your pardon?" "It's their pardon you should be begging." "How much in arrears are they?" "Constable?" "7 pounds, 8 shillings, 9 pence." "Well, do you want it, or don't you?" "I don't have 9 pence." "You can keep the change." "By his glory be to god," "But doesn't she just take the cake?" "I'll pay you back every penny." "I swear it on my father's grave." "Why didn't you tell me you needed money?" "I'd have helped you." "I'll not take charity, scarlett." "It's family, uncle daniel." "There's no charity in family." "Nevertheless, every penny." "All right, then." "Maybe we can make some kind of an arrangement." "What would that be?" "Will you come farm a piece of my land?" "The rent will be better," "Not only for you." "For anyone who comes as tenant at ballyhara." "Put the difference between your rent here" "And the rent there toward paying me back." "It's fine land up there." "It's o'hara land." "Every penny, mind." "And a bit more." "I didn't have the exact change." "Daniel, coming up." "I got that one." "There she goes." "Ready?" "Hurry up." "Want some lunch?" "I just come by" "To tell you I'll be away for a while." "Away?" "Where?" "America." "Boston, philadelphia." "Don't be gone too long." "Only as long as is needed." "It's coming along." "Not fast enough." "Fast is a word" "You'll find mysteriously absent" "From the irish vocabulary, darlin'." "You'll be needing help running a house the size of this." "I've taken the liberty of arranging that for you." "Rosaleen fitzpatrick's her name." "Formerly head housekeeper on an estate by trim, near laracor." "I'm much obliged, colum." "I hadn't thought of that." "I'll have her drop by at your convenience." "I have other news as well." "I've had a letter from savannah from tommy shannon," "The works foreman on the new cathedral being built there." "It concerns your tara." "It's about time." "What's the news?" "Faced with a retarded pace of work on the cathedral," "As was hinted as a possibility by tommy," "The bishop reconsidered your proposal" "To buy back your sister's share of tara" "And will enter into negotiations on a fair price." "Hallelujah." "Won't all this alter your plans somewhat?" "How?" "You seem to be amassing" "A considerable amount of property." "Colum, what we're standing on" "Was here a million years ago." "How can anyone have too much of anything that lasts that long?" "Never thought of it quite like that," "But I don't know of any but you who would." "You'll be needing considerable staff, of course." "I don't know about considerable." "Just someone to run the place," "And I'm assuming that'll be you, mrs." "Fitzpatrick." "I'll only be using a few rooms at first." "When'll the child be coming?" "I judge October or thereabouts." "That's what I'm figuring on - around late October." "They've got to finish up" "Enough for me to move in before then." "Why is that?" "I want my baby to be born here." "You'll be needing a steward" "To manage the butler, the footmen, and the like," "And a head stableman to supervise the grooms." "How many horses have you in mind to have?" "I haven't gotten around to thinking about horses yet." "I'm late in expressing my pleasure" "At meeting you and being in your employ." "It would be an honor to be housekeeper for the o'hara." "Beg your pardon?" "I say I'll be honored being housekeeper for the o'hara." "The o'hara?" "What do you mean?" "Are you not aware, then?" "You're called the o'hara now," "Head of the family o'hara and all its branches." "A rare grace it is, you being a woman." "Hasn't been a female borne the title" "In over 100 years or more." "Ye gods!" "What do I have to do?" "Some will come to you" "With various troubles now and again." "There'll be the odd squabble amongst families" "That might be needing your attention." "There may be occasional intercessions with the landlord" "Asked of you." "Nothing that you're not equal to," "From what I've heard of you thus far." "Well, I'll do my best," "But what I'd be equal to right now is lunch." "Let's drop into the pub." "Well, now..." "Women are rare enough in carney's, mrs." "Butler," "And never unescorted." "But I'm the o'hara." "Afternoon." "Here's to ya!" "God bless the o'hara!" "You hurt me." "Get dressed." "Are you done with me for this evening," "Lord fenton, sir?" "Get dressed." "You hurt me." "God bless all here." "Colum." "Whoa." "Colum." "You're back." "How are you?" "Welcome." "I missed you so." "So how was boston?" "And philadelphia, was it?" "Quite civilized, I'm pleased to report." "You sure travel far afield to save souls." "If this little creature was kicking me like that from the outset," "I'd be black and blue." "Poor lamb." "How much longer?" "About three weeks, I reckon." "Will you have your wish as to the birthplace?" "I will." "The whole house isn't finished yet," "But enough so's I'll have my baby 'neath ballyhara's roof." "Be sure to stay beneath it the night of allhallows eve." "Why?" "What's that?" "The same as your Halloween," "Though we take it more seriously than you do." "It's coming a week Saturday." "Stay in your house with your doors shut tight." "That's when all the goblins and ghosts" "And spirits from all the times come out," "Some carrying their heads beneath their arms" "And all other unnatural things." "Colum." "Oh, well." "Perhaps you're not quite irish enough yet." "There's some plaster needed on the walls," "But with a good fire in the hearth and cheerful curtains," "The room will afford quite reasonable comfort." "And there's a surprise for you." "We found it in the attic." "Sweet mercy, what is it?" "It's a state bed," "Probably made specially for the viceroy's visit years ago." "Who's that?" "The head of the government in ireland." "I've ordered a comfy mattress." "I could sleep in this" "And never hit the same spot twice." "The bed wants more than one in it." "Mrs. Fitzpatrick, whatever are you suggesting?" "Ooh!" "I trust there's been no signs of ghosts as yet." "Not yet." "They're probably waiting till I get settled in" "Before they make their presence known." "Do you believe in ghosts?" "I don't believe in them, but I'm scared of them." "Have you a preference?" "I'm hoping for a girl." "It would appear you haven't long to wait before you know." "It's banging on the gates, all right." "It must be quite difficult," "Widowed and bearing a child." "I would've preferred it otherwise." "I would've been by sooner," "But I'm just back from dublin." "It's a beautiful city." "You must see it." "I have every intention of seeing it." "Perhaps I can be your guide and escort." "You might care to meet some fashionable people," "I dare say, even the viceroy." "Does it sound appealing?" "I have to admit it does." "I could benefit from some relief" "From all the muck I've been slogging through of late." "But there's somebody else I've got to meet first, though." "Of course." "In due time." "In due time, I just might." "I'll take your horse, father." "Throw another log on the fire." "Colum, what are you doing out on a night like this?" "I was halfway here when the storm broke." "It was easier to keep coming." "Who but a priest would venture out on allhallows eve?" "You're in time for supper." "I was hoping I might be." "This came in the adamstown post for you today." "I'm expecting something from my lawyer in atlanta." "This isn't it, though." "It's from an aunt in charleston." "Would you lay another place for colum?" "I'll just go make myself more presentable." "Oh, god." "The baby." "Ohh!" "Mrs. Fitzpatrick!" "Mrs. Fitz!" "It's coming!" "It's coming!" "I'll get the doctor." "He's too far, and there isn't the time." "Something's not natural." "There's blood." "I can't vouch for myself to do it, colum." "I'll fetch someone who will." "Nobody will venture out on allhallows eve." "Perhaps I'll get someone to come under special protection." "Go on, now!" "Hyah!" "Whoa!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "No!" "Aah!" "It'll be all right, darlin', shush." "Shush, darlin'." "No!" "Shush, shush, shush." "No!" "It'll be all right." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!"