"I cannot bear it." "I will not believe she's gone from all of us," "From me." "Melanie wilkes was my only true friend." "How could she leave me now" "Just when I need her most?" "...And commit her body to the ground." "Earth to earth..." "Ashes to ashes..." "And, oh, my poor darling ashley," "Because of my life's destruction," "Now the only thing left of me of that wreckage." "Whoa." "This awful day will be over soon." "Then I can go home..." "To tara." "Oh, melanie..." "Don't leave me." "Please, don't leave me, melanie." "Oh, melanie." "Melanie." "Ashley, stop it." "Ashley, don't." "Stop." "Stop it." "You mustn't." "Leave my brother alone." "Take your hands off of him." "Leave him alone." "Haven't you done enough harm?" "If it's harm to have loved melanie wilkes" "With all my heart" "And her husband near as much" "In the name of heaven, ladies, cease." "Cease this instant." "I'm ceasing." "Ashley." "Ashley, come on." "Ashley, come along." "Come along, now." "Hail mary, full of grace," "The lord is with thee." "Blessed art thou amongst women," "And blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus." "Excuse me, miss scarlett." "Gentleman here to see you, ma'am." "What gentleman might that be, pansy?" "Mr. Hamilton, ma'am." "Now, he says you wasn't expecting him, but" "I'll say I wasn't." "Well, send him on in, then." "Evening, scarlett." "Well, here's a surprise." "Have a seat, I guess." "I just thought I'd stop by" "And see how you're doing..." "Mm-hmm." "After all that considerable upset this morning." "That was most unfortunate." "Was it really all that chilly out there, uncle henry," "Or was it only me feeling the cold draft" "Of pompous disapproval?" "There was a bit of a nip in the air." "Guess you've got a point about the other." "Seems like a fair amount of that disapproval" "Was coming off you, I'd say, henry." "What brings you by, anyhow?" "I thought I might be able" "To offer you a little advice" "That might ease your situation." "What situation is that?" "The situation that brought about" "That unseemly display of mutual animosity" "At the cemetery, scarlett." "Now let's face the facts a bit." "Feelings are running real high against you here in atlanta." "Everybody seems determined to believe" "That you had your eye and your intentions" "Set on ashley wilkes" "Right up to the time melanie passed on." "That's a damn scurrilous lie!" "Scarlett, if I may offer my best advice," "I think it would do a world of good" "For everybody concerned" "If you would just remove yourself from atlanta for a while." "Give tempers time to simmer down." "Run away with my tail between my legs?" "Well, I guess you'd all be real pleased" "To see me take the next boat to timbuktu" "On a one-way passage." "You got the tar, the feathers, and the rail" "Waiting outside, have you?" "I was just making a kindly suggestion." "No more, no less." "I'm making a kindly suggestion" "For you to leave my house, henry hamilton." "In spite of everything, scarlett," "I want to say I was real upset" "To hear about you and rhett coming to a sorrowful end." "Well, maybe it's sorrowful," "But whether it's the end or not" "Remains to be seen." "Hyah!" "Come on!" "Hyah!" "Hyah!" "Come on!" "All out for jonesboro." "Scarlett!" "Hey, scarlett!" "Will!" "Oh, will." "I'm so glad to see you," "I'm practically crying for joy." "Well, I guess you've been doing enough crying" "For grief, scarlett." "Joy wants his turn." "It's been such a long time," "Almost a year." "More like two, I guess." "You're exaggerating." "Don't believe I am, scarlett." "Well, we best get a move on" "If we're gonna beat the dark home." "Let's beat the dark home." "Pansy, see to the luggage." "Hope you don't mind riding rough." "Figured as long as I was coming to town," "Might as well get some supplies." "I don't mind at all." "How's my dear sister taking to the idea" "Of me showing up on your doorstep" "Out of the clear blue sky?" "I told suellen to let bygones be bygones." "I'm offering you the same advice." "I'm hoping you'll take it." "You know I'm not a person to carry a grudge." "What's happened to tara, will?" "It's looking downright ramshackle." "Do the best I can keeping it up" "When I'm not tending the crops." "I know you do, will." "You've always been a steady man," "The best foreman we ever had at tara." "I'll bet you've been a good husband to suellen," "Lots better that frank kennedy would have been." "Well, coming from the former mrs." "Frank kennedy," "I guess I can take that as a compliment." "I thank you for it." "Whoa." "Whoa, now." "Suellen, god's nightgown, you're having another?" "We're still trying for a boy." "He's trying for a boy." "I'm trying to take care of the two I got." "And speaking of which," "Let me get a look at my pretty little nieces." "My, how you've grown." "Aunt scarlett's here with delicious surprises for you." "Oh, your aunt scarlett's" "Always been one for surprises." "Uh, let's-let's go in." "Lucius, see to that luggage, will you?" "Yes, sir, mr." "Will." "How have you been getting along?" "Just fine, I guess." "You getting some good yields?" "You didn't come back to tara" "To inquire about our crops, scarlett." "Why are you here?" "Why, to see mammy." "And where the dickens is she, anyhow?" "Oh, mammy." "Old mammy is getting ready" "To lay down her worldly burdens." "I love you, mammy." "No need for speaking" "When I already knows." "Yes, there is a need." "I never told melanie." "And I didn't tell rhett" "Until it was too late." "Wouldn't mind seeing that..." "Devil's face again." "And so you will." "So you will." "Come on." "Just going to say hi" "To your uncle seth here." "I'd like to send this to atlanta, if you please." "Yes, ma'am." "This place could use some sprucing up." "Looks almost as bad as it did" "The day the war ended." "I reckon we could buy enough whitewash" "To paint the entire house" "With what that fancy dress you're wearing cost." "You're not being fair, suellen, as usual." "Haven't I tried a hundred times to help out?" "Hasn't will been too proud" "To accept my help?" "Your charity, scarlett." "It's not charity." "Tara's still partly my house, too." "It's not charity." "It's trying to make what's partly mine" "A fit place to live in." "Yours and mine..." "And the sisters of mercy convent." "What do you mean?" "The startling fact is that our baby sister" "Handed over her share of tara to the convent." "It's her dowry upon her entry" "Into the service of jesus." "Careen did that?" "Looks like you'll be having the catholic church" "To contend with before you can make good your intentions." "What intentions?" "Finding a way of throwing us out to live like crackers." "You's way over the line." "I'll say she is." "I wanted us to be a family again." "Tara's our home." "I wanted us to be a family again in it." "Doesn't seem to be a chance of that" "As long as you hold your grudge against me" "For something that happened a hundred years ago." "Guess it wasn't all that long ago, was it?" "Ladies, please?" "She won't let the past be past." "You're not the one who had her beau stolen" "From under her nose by her very own sister." "If you knew what kind of a husband" "Frank kennedy turned out to be," "You'd be thanking me." "You stole frank to pay the taxes on tara." "You lied to him, telling him I had another beau." "You only married charles hamilton out of spite" "Because ashley married melanie," "And you couldn't bear it." "I guess careen is the saint" "Amongst the three o'hara sisters." "I obviously do not qualify." "Well, so much for bygones, I guess." "That's belle watling's place, isn't it?" "Yes, sir." "Welcome to atlanta." "Yeow!" "You are a feisty little girl." "He come right back to me." "Pick a card." "Put it back." "That's amazing." "How did you do that?" "Show me again, rhett." "I bet I'll figure it out." "One time per trick, honey." "Depending on the trick." "I bet I'll figure it out" "If I seen it one more time." "Pick a card." "Don't let me see it, now." "You got it fixed in your mind?" "Uh-huh." "Then put it back." "If I have it wrong," "You win." "If I have it right," "I win." "What do you win?" "How many guesses you need, lull?" "Oh, rhett." "Take her away, fellas." "Don't shortchange him, lull." "Now, can I interest any of you gentlemen" "In a game of chance?" "Always a pleasure doing business with you, rhett." "Evening, mr." "Butler." "There's a telegram for you, sir." "Thanks." "Good to see you, rhett." "You're looking well." "Suellen." "Prosperous, I might say." "Your survival of our ignominious defeat in the war" "Appears to have flourished with the passage of time." "I've had me some luck, suellen." "Hmm." "Thank you for informing me" "Of mammy's dire state." "Came as soon as I could." "Me?" "Your telegram." "I didn't send you a telegram." "Was there another will benteen I didn't know about?" "I assumed it was scarlett let you know." "Scarlett." "Hello, rhett." "Mammy, mammy, I brought you my promise." "Look." "Look who's come to see you." "Hello, old girl." "Am I still a mule in a horse harness?" "Who would ever call mr." "Rhett butler that?" "You would, and did." "I must have been teasing." "You must have been." "You wouldn't hold it against me" "If I asked you a favor, mr." "Rhett?" "Not a chance, mammy." "Remember that fine red silk petticoat you give me?" "Yeah." "I never gave a prettier to anyone." "I want you to see" "That I'm laid to rest in it." "I'll make sure it goes with you, mammy." "Would I be asking too many promises" "If I was to have one more?" "Anything you want, mammy." "I want you to take care of miss scarlett." "She needs caring for so bad." "I will, mammy." "Always needed caring so bad," "Miss scarlett did." "Thank you, mammy." "I just can't imagine tara without mammy." "Can you?" "Why did you sign will's name" "To that telegraph you sent me?" "It was just a little bit of a fib." "I was afraid you wouldn't come" "If you knew I was here." "For mammy, I would have come." "Well, I'm glad you did." "Apart from mammy," "I just thought it would be" "A perfectly natural location" "For courteous and civilized conversation" "Between husband and wife," "However strained relations might be between us" "At the present time." "I was sorry you couldn't be at melanie's funeral." "I was traveling." "So I heard." "I laid some flowers on her grave." "And bonnie's?" "Hmm..." "I wonder sometimes if things might have been different" "If our child hadn't died." "Do you ever wonder that?" "No." "I've missed you, rhett." "I've missed you so." "I hope you don't expect me" "To echo that sentiment." "Well, I thought you might be able" "To express some semblance of it" "After what you said upstairs to mammy." "I lied." "Don't say you lied." "I will not tolerate it." "I lied to make a dear old woman's last moments happy." "No gentleman would lie about such a matter." "No, I don't suppose a gentleman would." "You are such a child, scarlett." "You've known me all these years," "Yet when it suits, pleases, or satisfies you," "You can forget all you've learned." "Nothing's changed, scarlett." "Nothing." "I offered you a divorce." "You ready to accept it yet?" "I will never divorce you." "You'd be free to marry ashley." "I don't want ashley." "He was only ever some figment" "Of my silly girlish dreams." "Let me make amends, rhett." "Please, please let me make amends." "Whatever amends you care to make are your concern." "I'll not be a party to them." "I hope you'll change your mind about a divorce." "I think it's the only possibility" "Of some kind of peace between us." "In the meantime, I'll see to it" "We're seen often enough in public" "To keep the gossip down." "I'm leaving in the morning." "Good night, my dear." "The yankees should have hung you" "When they had the chance!" "Whoa." "I've come to see how ashley is." "You are not welcome here, scarlett." "I made a promise to melanie." "I intend to keep it." "Do you intend to step aside" "And let me come in like a lady," "Or do I have to knock you over?" "Ashley is in no humor to receive visitors," "Least of all unexpected ones." "Where is he?" "You can either tell me, india," "Or I'm going to find him." "Get away!" "Damn it!" "Miss scarlett." "Dearest, I" "I didn't know you were back in atlanta." "Don't you look the dickens?" "What are you doing?" "Doing?" "Why..." "Nothing." "What I hear is" "You haven't been seen in public" "Since the day of the funeral." "Really?" "Well, I suppose that might well be." "I've rather lost track." "Maybe it's time" "You found it again, ashley." "You mustn't worry about me, scarlett." "I'll be fine." "Really I will." "When are you going to start trying to be?" "I just can't bring myself" "To believe it, you see." "I know how that is" "Somebody you love dying." "You go to sleep every night," "And it's gone for a while," "And you wake up remembering." "There isn't a moment of a day" "That I don't feel her..." "Near..." "And think that..." "If I were merely to turn..." "There she'd be..." "My melanie." "Oh, scarlett..." "How can I go on without her?" "You're going to have to find a way, my darling," "And you will." "How?" "Well, not like this," "Locking yourself away" "And tormenting yourself" "With what's never going to be." "You can stare at that door until you're old and gray," "And melly's never going to come through it." "Scarlett, you are harsh." "Not in my heart." "I know nobody loved melly the way you did," "But you're not the only one who did love her." "And the rest of us" "Aren't going to curl up and die from it," "And neither are you." "Maybe you should be giving some thought to your son," "Melanie's son." "You're all he's got now." "Is this what you want her to see" "Looking down on you from heaven" "Her boy all alone and grieving alone" "Because his pa feels too sorry for himself to remember him," "To remember what he needs?" "You shame me now, scarlett." "Pa used to say" "Some of the best things folks have ever done" "Come out of their shame" "For the things they did before." "Now, do you think" "Maybe I could have a cup of tea?" "And we'll talk things over." "Tea." "So, now," "What's the situation with scarlett of late?" "I offered her a divorce." "If I know scarlett," "She ain't taking you up on that." "Not yet." "You got more chance" "Of her giving you a divorce" "Than you do" "Of getting into a bank on Sunday." "You going to the ball this year?" "What ball?" "What ball?" "The masked ball." "The carnival." "I expect you already received" "Your fancy engraved" "Personal invite." "Well, I don't know." "Probably." "You get yours?" "Ha!" "That'll be the day." "But you ought to go, you know." "Probably do you a world of good." "I didn't know I was in need" "Of being done a world of good." "The only thing darker than your hair of late" "Has been your countenance." "I been looking all that glum?" "You haven't been altogether sparkly, you know." "I think a bit of your former social life" "Might very well perk you up." "You want to perk me up?" "Climb in here with me." "This ain't built for two." "It depends on which two." "Come on." "Aah!" "Why don't you come home to pa?" "That's it." "How do things stand with my store" "And the warehouses and the land?" "Everything is better than well." "It was a more fortunate decision" "Than you may have realized" "When you sold your sawmill to ashley." "Why?" "Well, it's going under." "Builders always need lumber." "If they're building." "I know you're not interested" "In what happens in the world" "Unless it concerns you," "But you have got one of the best business heads" "That I have ever met," "Despite the fact that you're a female." "You might as well know" "There was a considerable financial scandal" "In new york three weeks ago." "What about my money?" "Are the banks safe?" "The one holding your funds is." "But investments are very tight," "And that means building, too." "And if nobody's building," "Nobody needs lumber." "Are you saying ashley" "Is really in serious financial difficulty?" "You can't boom without bucks." "This is delicious sponge cake." "I want my cook to have this recipe." "Who's the best builder in atlanta, henry?" "Well, define best." "Who can build" "A reasonably respectable structure" "Without stealing too much?" "That's a difficult parley, scarlett." "I'm asking for advice," "Not discouraging opinions." "I suppose a person" "Could do worse than big sam." "Why?" "Big sam." "What do you mean, our big sam?" "Our foreman at tara?" "Formerly your big sam, scarlett." "Does the name lincoln ring a bell with you?" "I got to say it, miss scarlett." "You are a sight for sore eyes." "Heh heh!" "And maybe make them water a bit, too." "You could've knocked me over with a feather" "When mr." "Hamilton told me" "About your coming back to atlanta" "And your subsequent good fortune, big sam." "The north didn't suit me after a time." "But I did prosper." "I did prosper," "Enough so's I could come home" "And establish my little business enterprise." "I'm glad to see you're doing so well for yourself." "I'm here to offer you the opportunity for lots better." "I'm just holding my breath, miss scarlett," "Hoping you're going to ask me" "To build you a big, new, fine house." "I'm thinking more along the lines" "Of maybe 25, big sam." "50 acres, sam." "I'm not utilizing all of it." "I won't require that much land" "To build, what, 25 houses." "25 small houses on standard lots." "Yes, ma'am." "Who supplies your lumber, sam?" "The harrison lumber works mostly." "Good quality, fair prices." "If you keep your eye on them." "You'll be getting your lumber elsewhere for this job." "How many good rafters you got over there?" "25 houses?" "Yes, sir, mr." "Wilkes." "I've recently been contracted to build them." "I'd be mighty pleased" "If your outfit could supply the lumber" "To build them with." "I don't see why it wouldn't be possible." "I will say, sam," "It seems a somewhat precarious investment" "For anyone in these uncertain times." "Who are the developers?" "Some folks I was in business with up north" "For a short spell." "Nice fellas." "Highly spoken of up there." "Probably will be down here, too, in the south," "Where they're expecting to expand their business interests." "25 homes." "Even of the modest dimensions" "You've suggested, sam..." "It's a good deal of lumber." "I'd say so, mr." "Wilkes." "Yes, indeed." "We're discussing a whole lot of lumber here." "Could be a profitable discussion." "Yes, yes, I expect it could." "I want you to draw up a contract" "Between samuel o'hara building company" "And atlanta acres real estate incorporated." "Who in the world are they?" "They are me, uncle henry." "And I'm hereby officially calling upon" "The traditional confidentiality" "Existing between a lawyer and his client." "What are you up to, scarlett?" "I'm up to keeping a promise." "And if keeping it means losing some money" "In order to keep ashley wilkes" "From going belly up in the sun," "Then..." "I'll just have to take the loss this time." "Tomorrow's another day." "This is something I thought I'd never see" "In these days of blatant opportunism." "These are quality construction." "For once, the less fortunate" "Can be treated as well as the rich." "It would appear" "That maybe all the old values" "Haven't been entirely lost." "It does seem that way, doesn't it?" "I'm honored to be part of this." "I hope there's some financial benefit to be derived" "From all this honorable and uplifting endeavor." "You can't imagine, scarlett." "No, I suppose not." "I have to confess," "I have virtually no head for commerce." "My business is on the brink." "Then like a bolt from the blue," "Big sam walked into my office." "The good lord must've been looking down on me." "I just know he was." "Well, I was getting worried about you." "Well, your mother is of her own mind." "Imagine her having the nerve" "To show her face here tonight." "Ah, but what a face." "You men are all the same." "Ha ha ha!" "Good evening, henry, aunt pittypat." "Aren't you looking royal?" "I gather you've come alone," "But it's just not done in polite society." "Well, so far I haven't found so much polite" "In the society this evening." "I'll have to keep looking." "And as for being alone," "Well, I never am." "God is always with me." "I'll save a dance for you, henry." "Have you saved one for me, scarlett?" "Why, ashley, you know I have." "Remember when we used to dance, ashley?" "It's hard to remember sometimes." "I wonder if any of us will ever dance again" "The way we used to before the war." "Our hearts were different then." "Everything was different then." "I miss it so, don't you, scarlett?" "Will it ever be that way again, do you think?" "I guess not." "We've got to keep dancing, don't we?" "Oh, my lord." "What is it, scarlett?" "I haven't trod on your toe, have I?" "He's here." "He's here, ashley." "I didn't think he'd come." "I hardly dared hope." "That's the silliest looking thing" "I've ever seen." "Who are you supposed to be?" "Keep a civil tongue" "In your pretty head, young miss." "You are addressing edward teach," "The most fearsome pirate," "Known far and wide as blackbeard." "Bluebeard would be more like it." "Did you recognize me, too?" "I don't need to find the most ostentatious gown in the room" "To know who was under it." "I might've known you'd say something mean." "I'd know you with a flour sack on your head." "How would you manage that?" "I'm too much of a gentleman this evening to say." "I believe you've been drinking." "Did you come to see me?" "No, I came to be seen, scarlett, not to see." "I'm taking the opportunity" "To fulfill our obligations to the social amenities." "Keeping down the gossip," "That's all you came for." "You didn't come to see me." "That-a girl, dear scarlett." "Whisper your sweet nothings" "Into my burning ears." "You're as tipsy as a termite in a beer barrel." "I assume that weapon is not loaded." "I don't think I'd chance" "Being in such close proximity to you with a loaded pistol." "I suppose you'll be staying the night at the house." "Imagine the gossip tomorrow" "If I were to check into the harmon hotel tonight." "I understand you made a spectacle of yourself at melanie's funeral." "I was only keeping ashley from making a spectacle of himself." "Ashley had a right to be a spectacle." "He was well within his bounds." "You were way outside of yours." "You just persist in breaking the rules." "You know that I'd hold you to account for that." "I've always found it to be one of your few agreeable aspects." "I don't care what the mucky-mucks think of me." "I never have, and I'm not going to start." "The more you natter on," "The more fortunate for you that that pistol isn't loaded." "Whoa!" "Good night, mr." "Rhett." "Miss scarlett." "Y'all have pleasant dreams, now." "You once carried me across this threshold." "You can rest assured that won't happen again." "Who is it?" "What do you want?" "It's just me, miss scarlett." "I brought you a pot of coffee." "I don't want it." "Miss scarlett, maybe it would" "Get out before I take a strap to you." "Why would you do that now that slave days is over?" "You never done when slave days still was." "There were plenty of times I wanted to." "Yes'm, I could see that." "Go away." "You're doing yourself real hurt," "Miss scarlett." "It's breaking my heart" "To see you breaking yours." "The only hurt there's going to be around here is me hurting you" "If you don't remove yourself from my sight." "It wouldn't be you hurting me." "What's in that bottle there," "And you'd wake up weeping and moaning for the doing of it." "Spare yourself the hurt and me the weeping." "Well..." "It's just something I had to say is all." "Pansy!" "I want you to wash my hair." "And start packing." "We're going to charleston." "Just lots more hurtin' in charleston." "Now arriving in charleston," "The express train from columbia." "Oh, there she is." "There she is." "Aunt eulalie!" "Aunt pauline!" "Miss scarlett." "Oh, darling." "Shall we tell her now?" "Tell me what?" "Let's tell her now." "Tell me what?" "Soon as we got your letter telling us you were coming," "We mentioned it to eleanor butler." "You told rhett's mother?" "We presumed she was already cognizant to the fact," "You being her daughter-in-law." "She was just as surprised as we were." "We said you would be staying with us at our house." "She said, "why, she'll be doing no such thing."" "She said, "you bring her directly to my doorstep," "Or you will never hear the end of it."" "You will never hear the end of it." "Is rhett there?" "Rhett's up north." "Buying back some of the family silver" "The yankees stole." "Are you saying I'll be a guest of mrs." "Butler's?" "She's invited me to stay with her?" "What could be more natural and fitting, child?" "It's your husband's home, too." "Oh, my dear scarlett." "Oh." "I'm so glad you've come home." "I've been longing for you to come." "We'll go to market tomorrow." "You'll meet everyone you should know there." "It's the traditional place to learn all the news, too." "The newspapers don't print" "The really interesting things." "I suppose you couldn't help being aware of" "The unfortunate presence in charleston" "Of so many yankee soldiers." "I know you've been rid of them" "For some very long time up in atlanta." "We've been occupied for so long," "We hardly notice them anymore." "I'll never get used to them, never." "Well, then we'll just have to do our best" "To distract you from their presence." "We can begin this very day." "My committee is meeting here this afternoon." "You must join us," "If only for tea." "I wouldn't want to prevail on you to participate." "In what?" "We raise money with cake sales" "And bazaars of handicrafts and such" "For the confederate home for widows and orphans." "I'd be quite pleased to participate" "In something like that." "Oh, lovely." "Every bit of help helps." "Giddyap!" "Come on!" "Giddyap!" "Come on!" "Giddyap!" "Sally!" "Watch it!" "Sally." "Jehoshaphat!" "We're here." "Who in the heck is that?" "Sally brewton." "She can be mad as a March hare at times." "Margaret, emma," "We have arrived." "Oh, my." "Well, it's another perfectly thrilling ride, sally." "One's soul looks forward to it." "Speak for yourself." "Yoo-hoo!" "Eleanor!" "Ha ha ha!" "Who's that with you?" "The new recruit" "For our disgustingly noble cause?" "I had always heard that you would turn the heads" "On tin soldiers." "I'm pleased to see that nobody was exaggerating." "Smoke?" "No, thank you." "I don't indulge." "Your husband and I go back to when he was in knee pants" "And I was wondering what those two funny bumps was on my chest." "Eleanor, where has that son of yours been keeping himself?" "He's in philadelphia." "What the pluperfect heck is he doing there?" "Why don't you ask him yourself?" "Rhett!" "I believe you rang for tea, mrs." "Butler." "Rhett, darling." "Is that what I think it is?" "Is that my tea service?" "Oh, lord, it is my tea service." "Where on earth did you find it?" "Philadelphia." "The place is bursting with yankee plunder." "I brought a little bit of it home..." "To its rightful place." "I think I'm going to cry." "If I ever had a son, I'd want to be just like rhett." "A husband would've been even better." "Sally!" "Sally!" "How you been keeping, you wolf in wolf's clothing?" "I proposed to you on a number of occasions." "You were about 12 years old at the time." "I wanted to get my bid in early." "Hello, rhett." "Ahem." "It is a fortunate man" "Who's offered a greater surprise than he offered." "I don't believe you know our newest member" "Miss anne hampton." "How do you do, miss hampton?" "Charmed to finally meet you." "I've heard so much about you." "Your tender ears must be sizzling." "Welcome home, rhett, honey." "Welcome to charleston, scarlett..." "Honey." "You might seriously hurt my arm, rhett butler!" "What are you doing here?" "I sure didn't come all this way" "To lend my time and efforts" "To the confederate widows and orphans sewing society." "I'm here to be with you." "I no longer love you." "Don't say that." "I'm your wife." "You're my husband." "An unfortunate circumstance I offered to correct." "I will never divorce you - never, never!" "Your mother's overjoyed that I'm here." "What will you tell her if you throw me out?" "'cause I'll tell her the truth," "And it'll break her heart." "I don't have to throw you out." "Sooner or later, you'll reveal yourself." "You think you can pass yourself off as a lady." "Charleston gentry will see through you." "I am a lady, damn you!" "You couldn't fool a blind, deaf mule." "Show me your clothes." "I assume you've armed yourself with a new wardrobe" "To win back my favors," "All of it in your typically awful taste." "Now show me your new frocks." "I'll see what can be salvaged, if anything." "Don't catch cold trying to be alluring, scarlett." "You're wasting your time." "I think I've been wasting my time" "Since the day I first laid eyes on you." "Get rid of all this lace." "It's supposed to be a dress, not a tablecloth." "Get rid of this one altogether." "It's hopeless." "Change these gold buttons for black ones" "And shorten the train." "Ha ha ha." "There's enough bows on this" "To decorate a christmas tree." "I hope you're enjoying insulting me." "As a matter of fact, I am." "See if you can make one of these presentable enough" "To be seen in this evening." "My mother was a robillard from savannah," "And the o'haras are descended from the kings of ireland." "Every irishman I've ever heard of" "Seems to have been descended from a king." "Is it just the one king, scarlett, or were there several?" "Ha ha ha." "I hate you." "Ha ha ha!" "I hate you!" "Looks like that royal irish blood, miss hampton." "Sometimes it gets them carried away." "Won't rhett be joining us, miss eleanor?" "I'd hoped to have my first charleston breakfast" "With the company of my husband." "Oh, but I thought you knew, my dear." "Well, there-there was a note from rhett this morning." "He left last night." "He's gone up-river to dunmore landing." "Didn't he tell you?" "Well, aren't I the perfect dunce?" "Certainly he told me." "Completely left my mind." "What a silly willy I am- certainly, your plantation." "Yes." "He spends quite a bit of his time there these days," "As you're no doubt aware." "Well..." "Maybe it's just as well" "I have a private moment with you, miss eleanor." "Oh?" "I need you to help me, miss eleanor." "Well, of course, scarlett." "How may I?" "Anything." "I want to look like a lady." "Well, now, scarlett." "I know that I don't," "But I want to know what I'm doing wrong." "I am a lady." "Well, of course you are, scarlett." "Well, it may be that you have so much vitality," "I mean, all the vigor" "Of the world you grew up in," "It's misleading to people here" "In the old, tired, low country." "Still, you have no need of rouge on your lovely face," "And your clothes are..." "Well..." "Uh..." "As some of your clothes are," "Ill considered." "Yes, w-we'll just have to find ways" "To make you more like us." "Then you'll be more comfortable." "Heh." "And I suppose you will be, too." "Well, I would never have said so." "Fresh fish!" "It's over here!" "Go on, now." "And, uh, baked goods, and they're so delicious." "You could gain 20 pounds just by looking." "Oh, yes, um, I want some sausage, please." "I'm afraid you're a little late, mrs." "Butler." "You don't want those onions." "They're no good." "No good?" "What's wrong with them?" "They're not rotten or sprouting." "They've been dug up too soon." "They look fine, but they won't have any flavor." "Take my word for it." "How do you know?" "When I had to run our place after the war, tara," "I planted onions." "I didn't know beans about growing things," "So I dug up some when the tops started to brown." "I figured they would rot." "They didn't have bite to them at all." "You want these." "They're good onions." "Well, what can you tell me about celery?" "I have an uncommon" "If not downright unnatural adoration for celery." "Celery was too fancy for us." "I had a dozen mouths to feed." "Ask me about yams, though, or white potatoes, turnips," "Or cotton" "You worked the fields?" "We had to eat." "Weaved grass baskets." "I'll just go have look at those baskets." "I hear charleston's famous for its basketry." "How much is that?" "That's $4.00." "I just love those." "I missed out on the darn sausage." "That girl is just about altogether lacking" "In anything that would pass for an education." "She's got the taste of a hottentot," "But she's got vigor and strength and brains." "She's a survivor." "We need her kind in the south, eleanor," "Even in charleston," "Maybe especially in charleston." "I'm going to sponsor her." "I tried your recipe for peach cobbler." "Scarlett, we have a rather important matter" "We'd like to discuss with you." "What's that, aunt pauline?" "Concerning your grandfather robillard." "Incidentally" "What about him?" "It's come to our attention" "That you haven't written him for years." "Why should I write him?" "He's a crabby, mean old man who's never helped me." "We were hoping you might come with us to savannah..." "For the celebration party." "What celebration party?" "Father's birthday." "Well, I guess you'll just have to do that celebrating without me." "Regardless of your personal feelings," "You might consider the question" "Of respect for one's elders." "And family loyalty." "Duty." "And good manners." "Don't you dare preach over me." "I don't care a fig for grandfather robillard." "He was horrid to mother and to me." "You know I'm right." "He treats everybody like dirt," "Including you, his own daughters." "Father's sometimes less than gracious." "Father has his shortcomings." "That cannot be gainsaid," "But he is our father nonetheless." "Nonetheless." "And nonetheless, I won't be in savannah" "Watching him blow out his candles." "What I said she'd say." "It's what you say." "Can you spare a bouquet for my hall table, mr." "Butler?" "Take you'll pick, miss brewton." "Heh heh heh." "Ahh, flowers." "Ha ha." "You, sir, are a caution." "You and me go way back, rhett." "Tell me just what exactly is going on" "Between you and that amazing girl." "What makes you think that?" "Your mother told me" "That scarlett was less than charitable to you" "Concerning the death of your child." "If I hadn't wanted bonnie to ride that young," "She wouldn't have been on a horse." "If she hadn't been on a horse," "She wouldn't have been jumping it." "If she hadn't been jumping it," "She'd still be alive." "There were several remarks to that effect." "That was obviously grief" "Turned upside down and backwards." "She's put it back together now." "Why else would she be in charleston," "Except to show you that?" "She's here because she refuses to believe our marriage is over." "This marriage shouldn't have occurred at all." "She'd been married twice before." "She married me for my money." "She admitted that." "She was madly in love with ashley wilkes." "Why did you marry her?" "Because she was unlike any woman I had ever known" "Passionate, infuriating." "Ahh, I fell in love with her" "The moment I laid eyes on her..." "Kind of disease, I suppose." "Now ashley wilkes is a free man" "And would marry scarlett in an instant." "And I want to be rid of her." "That only makes her more determined to have me." "Heh heh." "I'm afraid it might all happen again." "She's..." "Heartless." "She's selfish." "She's like a child who cries for a toy" "And then breaks it, but..." "There are moments..." "There are moments that I come close to forgetting what I know." "Well, maybe she'll change." "When pigs fly, my dear." "Dunmore landing coming up now." "Isn't it perfectly stunning?" "I'll give you $50,000 in gold" "I beg your pardon?" "If you'll go away." "Go away?" "A handsome deal, scarlett," "A fortune bigger than you'd ever hoped for," "A king's ransom." "The king being you, I guess." "It's funny you should offer me what you call a deal." "What's funny about it?" "I came to offer one." "I shudder to think what your mind might concoct." "Why don't you just listen through all that shuddering?" "I'm offering for you to stop acting so hateful to me," "To act nice and help me have a good time" "Through the social season" "Like a happy married couple." "After the season, I'll leave." "Without the money?" "With the money, of course." "That's no deal." "There's nothing in it for me." "You'll take the money to leave, but you don't leave." "How do I benefit?" "I don't stay forever." "I don't tell your mother what a skunk you are." "Hmm." "I think we might be able to do business." "I'm always willing to dicker." "You confide in mother" "That however much you adore me," "I snore incorrigibly and unbearably," "A misfortune requiring us to sleep in separate bedrooms." "After the saint cecilia ball," "You'll express an urgent, irresistible desire" "To rush back to atlanta," "Where you will immediately engage the services of a lawyer" "To negotiate a legal separation." "You will never again set foot in charleston." "You'll never write or otherwise communicate with me." "Swear you'll be nice before I leave?" "Word of honor." "Lacking a bible, that will have to do." "If you turn mean, you broke the deal," "And I don't have to leave." "I still get the money." "Done." "You're a right trial in the husband department," "But it's nice doing business with you." "I don't suppose you'd reconsider that aspect concerning separate bedrooms?" "Girl can't have everything." "Thank you, sir." "10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17... 18." "There you are, ma'am." "Thank you." "Hi, rhett." "Well, now, here's a happy surprise." "Ooh, darlin', I was just hoping I would run into you." "And so you have." "How have you been, lull?" "Just fine and dandy, rhett." "When you coming back to atlanta?" "I never know when I might run up there." "It could be I'll be here in charleston if belle wants." "You don't say." "And why's that?" "Business." "Yours?" "Mine's the only kind of business I know, ain't it?" "Exploring new frontiers of commerce, are you?" "Mmm..." "You might say." "Belle's opening a whorehouse." "You might say that, too." "You're here just in time for the big race," "Horse race I'm running day after tomorrow." "Why the hell you runnin' a horse race?" "I love horse racing." "Can we go?" "What horse race?" "I won a fine quarter horse in a card game." "The loser suggested he'd race me for it." "If he wins, he gets his horse back." "If I win, I keep the horse" "And take his other one as well." "Why?" "Why don't you just settle for what you already won?" "Why are you in charleston?" "Touché." "She told you." "She's opening a whorehouse." "Ha ha ha!" "Don't let me down now, rhett." "I bet the mortgage on you." "Don't tell the missis, jake." "Don't make me have to." "Good morning." "Hello, mr." "Butler." "Who you betting on?" "I'm not the betting sort." "I thought horse racing was always around and around." "No, not this kind." "This kind is straight." "I thought it would be around and around." "Mother." "Yoo-hoo, rhett!" "Are my eyes deceiving me," "Or is that belle watling?" "Morning, belle." "Hello." "Luli." "Ladies, may I introduce miss belle watling" "And miss lull harris." "My mother, belle, mrs." "Butler senior." "How do?" "I don't believe you've ever met my wife scarlett." "I know miss watling by reputation." "Glad to make your acquaintance, mrs." "Butler." "Heard lots about you." "I don't expect you came from atlanta" "To see rhett race a horse, miss watling." "I wouldn't travel 6 feet to watch that." "Actually, I'm here on, uh, business, truth be told." "Oh, I'm so fascinated" "By ladies with business interests." "So very unusual, isn't it?" "What business are you engaged in, miss watling," "If one may know?" "You might say I arrange social get-togethers." "I see." "What exactly" "Uh, uh, mother..." "I believe it's time for the race to start." "Belle, real good running into you." "Luli." "Wish me luck." "I bet a whole dollar on you." "Don't disappoint me." "He seldom does." "Easy on that last bend, harry." "Would you care for a mint julep, darling?" "Come on." "More!" "Faster." "More!" "Oh!" "Yes!" "Whoo!" "All right!" "Ooh, he sure can ride, can't he?" "I'll say." "Harry." "Congratulations." "Never a doubt, my friend." "Never a doubt." "Great job." "Congratulations, mr." "Butler." "Congratulations." "Well, thank you so much." "I really don't believe rhett" "Was in need of two more horses, though." "Didn't have a thing to do with horses." "It had to do with him winning." "Much too revealing to me." "When you going to stop all this lollygagging around, sally," "And accept my oft repeated proposals of matrimony?" "Maxwell, if I've told you once," "I've told you more than twice," "Two marriages were enough for me." "It's nothing personal." "Third time lucky." "Says who?" "When I mentioned" "I'd recently made your acquaintance," "Daddy said you had a reputation" "Of some considerable notoriety during the war." "Wonder what he could have been referring to." "Are you teasing me?" "I made me some money," "And I had me some fun, miss hampton." "Did you come in my room last night?" "No." "You're lying." "Why would I lie?" "I must have dreamt it." "Some random nocturnal fever overcame you," "No doubt, giving rise to visions." "Did you come to my room last night?" "Yes." "I expect your dance card's full." "I threw it away." "I'm not dancing with anyone but you." "We'll be hearing the crack of breaking hearts" "All over the ballroom." "There's only one I want to hear breaking." "Pity." "You're a skunk." "It was by far the very best ball of the season." "And the last." "That's your way of reminding me" "Our agreement has concluded," "As if I needed reminding." "I don't want to talk about that tonight." "We'll talk about it tomorrow." "Your mother mentioned your being in new orleans recently." "For a short while." "Did being there bring to mind our honeymoon?" "Sure it did." "That's something, anyway." "Is your boat out there somewhere?" "Mm-hmm." "Does it have a name?" "Bonnie." "I suppose I might have guessed that." "I've never been sailing." "What's it like?" "It's wonderful." "I'll bet it is." "I've never been." "All right." "All right, just this once." "As adam said to eve." "I've never had so much fun in my life." "Well, more or less." "Bring it about, mate." "Ha ha ha!" "We don't want to tangle" "With that kind of weather." "Here." "Take the tiller." "This!" "I'll drop the jib." "Hold your course, mate!" "Start bailing!" "Bail out the water!" "Rhett!" "Scarlett!" "Scarlett!" "Hold on!" "Don't die on me, scarlett." "Please..." "Don't die on me." "Come on." "Come on." "Come back to me, scarlett." "Don't go." "Don't go, scarlett." "Don't go." "Oh, scarlett!" "I thought you were gone." "I wasn't dreaming this time, was I?" "Here." "Take some of this." "It's just rotgut." "It'll warm you." "I don't need it." "I've never been warmer in my life." "Listen to me, now." "For the rest of my life." "What happened..." "Ahh, it was, um..." "It was a celebration of survival." "Nothing more." "You're saying that 'cause..." "That's all you want it to be," "But what happened was your true heart," "Your true heart..." "You love me." "I know you do." "You love me." "Pansy?" "Pansy." "Oh, miss scarlett," "You woke up." "You been sleeping the longest time." "How long?" "What time is it?" "How is she?" "Well, she woke up just this minute." "Oh, thank goodness." "Oh, honey." "Miss eleanor..." "Ohh." "How long have I been sleeping?" "Oh..." "Where's rhett?" "Oh, you've been sleeping" "Nearly 24 hours, dearest." "How do you feel?" "Jehoshaphat." "24 hours?" "How could anybody sleep that long?" "You had quite an ordeal." "Don't you remember?" "Most of it, I guess." "Where's rhett?" "Pansy..." "Tell mr." "Rhett that sleeping beauty" "Is back from the land of nod." "Well, maybe not so beauty..." "If I look as bad as I feel." "Oh." "I'm feeling dreadful." "Well, I don't believe mr." "Rhett here..." "Right now." "Pansy, go down to the kitchen" "And bring some broth up for miss scarlett." "And some tea." "The doctor's been by several times," "And he's given every assurance" "About your condition." "And he says he wants you to rest" "For another day or two." "Is rhett all right?" "Rhett's fine." "I've got the most splitting headache." "Will he be back soon?" "Go on, miss eleanor." "It's just like the poets say." "Sometimes..." "Out of the darkest danger and fear" "Comes the most beautiful and dazzling night." "We almost lost our lives." "And in that near losing," "We found each other at last." "Oh, scarlett." "What's the matter?" "Rhett is all right, isn't he?" "You're not lying to me, are you?" "What's this?" "From rhett?" "Shall I leave you alone for a bit?" "Scarlett..." "There's nothing I can say about what happened yesterday," "Except that I'm profoundly ashamed" "And sorry to have been the cause" "Of such pain and danger for you" "And regret bitterly all that occurred" "After our escape." "My actions were reprehensible." "I cannot, however," "Deny now the truth of anything I said" "In the aftermath of our..." "Ill-advised and reckless encounter." "I must not and will not ever see you again." "Naturally I cannot remain" "In the environs of charleston." "The cash settlement I promised" "Will be transferred to you immediately" "In care of henry hamilton in atlanta." "I ask you to accept my sincere apologies" "For everything about our lives together." "It was not meant to be." "I wish you a happier future." "Miss scarlett, a messenger just came by." "Delighted as I am to hear your news, ashley," "I naturally would've preferred" "It had been a visit to me that brought you to charleston" "Instead of some darned business matter." "Dare I say my business here" "Is more excuse for my presence than reason for it?" "You're not rake enough to say such a thing to a lady, ashley." "Not and get away with it." "I sometimes so wish I were..." "Rake enough." "You've heard the saying" "About leopards and spots, I guess." "Alas, yes." "Alas nothing." "What you are is wonderful and fine, ashley." "You have no cause whatsoever for regret about it." "It's what I loved you for." "And made a ninny of myself for, if truth be told," "And I guess it has to be sometimes." "If rhett butler had just a smidgen" "Of your character and dignity" "How's rhett?" "That's the first mention you've made of him." "Does a leopard change his spots" "For a stripe down his back?" "Are there difficulties?" "I thought" "He's left me, ashley." "For good and all this time, I guess." "I'm so very sorry, my dear." "A minute ago you said you brought a surprise," "As if your being here wasn't surprise enough." "I won't tolerate being kept in suspense for one minute longer." "I brought you some photographs." "I'll just go and get them." "I'll only be a moment." "Don't be silly." "Save you a trip." "I'll come on up." "You really think you should?" "Fiddle-dee-dee." "I've spent the past two months" "Trying to do what's expected" "Of a proper charlestonian nose-in-the-air lady." "What I have to conclude is they're them, I'm me," "And never the twain's gonna meet." "I hope the accommodations in this hotel are worthy of you, ashley." "I'm quite content so far." "They're perfectly wonderful, ashley." "I can hardly wait to see them real." "Of course the photographs don't quite do them justice." "They're such fine homes." "They've enhanced big sam's reputation" "In the building trades." "You can be sure of that." "And how about your reputation in the lumber trades?" "I've got almost more demand than I can supply." "I'm so tickled-pink for you, ashley." "Will you be coming back to atlanta, scarlett?" "I haven't quite decided" "On my next course of life." "I wish you'd come back to atlanta." "Do you?" "Very much." "Very much." "I think maybe I've got about 10 seconds" "To get myself out of this room." "Scarlett... 5..." "Scarlett..." "This is charleston." "And you are, ostensibly," "A lady." "A lady does not accompany a man" "To his hotel room." "And certainly not in the broad light of day." "And most certainly not in charleston." "Did this person who saw me going up the stairs," "Whoever she is," "Since you refuse to divulge her identity," "Did this person observe me" "Coming back down the stairs 10 minutes later?" "I'd need more time than that to unlace my shoes," "Much less my corsets." "Scarlett, don't." "You're being vulgar." "I'm sorry." "But you are no longer welcome in this house." "Well, that suits me just fine." "'cause this is no longer a house" "In which I care to be welcome." "Oh, my lord." "Is that me?" "How can that be me?" "What am I doing?" "What have I done to myself?" "Is that cowardly disgusting creature" "Scarlett o'hara?" "No, it is not." "Scarlett o'hara doesn't drown her sorrows." "Scarlett o'hara doesn't hide away" "And hope for what she wants." "Scarlett o'hara goes out and gets what she wants." "You coward." "Coward!" "This here for miss robillard." "Which of 'em?" "Whichever." "Eulalie!" "Scarlett's changed her mind!" "She's going to savannah with us!" "Ohh." "Oh, my lord." "Oh, lord." "Yes." "Yes." "Well, I guess life's" "Just a long game of chance after all," "Isn't it, mr." "Rhett butler?" "That's what a gambling man like you would say," "Isn't it?" "And you think you've won it" "And walked away from the table" "Leaving me high and dry." "Well, you'll be thinking again" "One of these days, won't you?" "You surely will." "Maybe you don't want me," "But I've got something now you do want..." "Always wanted." "The ace is up my sleeve now," "And I'll play it when the time's right" "When I'm good and ready." "You'll be willing to walk barefoot" "Over hot coals to come back to me." "We were always two pieces of the one thing," "My darling rhett." "Now we're three."