"Say hello to the baby." "Enjoy yourselves, won't you?" "It breaks your heart" "Not to have the baby's father here," "God rest his soul," "Celebrating his daughter's" "First lovely year among us." "It's the only sadness on this joyous day, bridle." "Were you at the birth," "You'd have believed this day would never come." "Nor that I'd be here to remember it." "There's easier ways of having babies." "You gave your mammy the calamitous time of it, though," "Didn't you?" "Scarlett, here's someone" "You haven't met yet," "And time you did- mary boyle my niece." "Hello." "Pleased to meet you, ma'am." "She's the daughter of my half-brother liam." "Does that make us related somehow?" "It might well at that." "Hello, bridle." "Where have you been keeping yourself?" "Might you be up to a dance?" "Why, certainly." "I didn't see you over at the dance." "Go on, da." "I wonder if you had any new thoughts" "About your baby's dad." "What about him?" "About him knowing that the child exists." "Have I had any new thoughts about telling him?" "The answer's no." "I wonder if it's just." "It is to me." "It seems a terrible grudge." "He'll know when I'm ready for him to know." "Sounds like the distant future." "I prefer not to discuss the matter." "I would be derelict in my duty" "If I didn't broach the subject." "What duty is that, for heaven's sake?" "My duty to the rightness of things." "It's so good to have you back, rhett." "I'm sure glad of it." "I couldn't fail to return" "On my wedding anniversary." "Not if you knew what was good for you." "A toast to the first year" "Of what I hope shall be many of wedded bliss." "I believe this is your third toast this evening." "Who's counting?" "I trust your trip up north" "Was successful in its intentions." "Beyond my expectations." "I expect my next trip will be beyond yours." "Mine?" "Pretty as that bauble around your neck is," "I believe I can do better" "By way of an anniversary present." "How could you do better than that?" "That must have cost a fortune." "What do you mean?" "Well, I've decided it's time" "To combine some pleasure with my business." "In a couple of weeks," "You and I are going to be sailing" "Far away to a foreign land." "Where to?" "England first, then ireland." "Oh, my!" "Oh." "What business do you have there," "If I may inquire?" "I'm buying a horse." "I've never been anywhere." "You're traveling across the ocean" "To buy a horse?" "You could buy a horse 2 miles from here." "Not the kind I'm after." "I'm going to breed horses." "And some of the finest horses in the world are in ireland." "Sally put me in touch with a friend of hers." "He'll find me one or two good animals" "To start my string." "Well, good aunt sally." "Well, I, for one" "Or should I say two" "Am delighted to hear this." "Is it going to be more or less of a hobby?" "If it just turned out a hobby," "I'll have failed miserably." "A most unlikely happenstance," "I should say." "England." "Ireland." "I'm so thrilled I could choke." "Happy anniversary." "Yes?" "You've a caller, ma'am." "It's lord fenton." "Come on, darling." "Are we going to have our tea?" "This is very thoughtful of you, richard." "A small birthday acknowledgment" "For your lovely catherine." "Oh, good heavens." "It's absolutely enchanting." "Thank you so much." "There's a whistle, as well." "I don't know whether to give it to cat" "Or keep it myself." "I should be very pleased" "To be given the opportunity" "To offer you far more beautiful" "And certainly more appropriate gifts." "Are you, what we call in georgia," "Making advances, richard?" "Only of the most tentative sort." "It's been some time" "Since I've been given a gift by a man." "I'd call that inexcusable." "Me, too, if I was to think about it," "But I'd as soon not." "Perhaps you should." "You might find yourself inclined to correct the situation." "I don't know that it needs correcting." "Don't you?" "Cat's going to adore this." "Thank you." "May I inquire, in all innocence," "Whether you've considered a jaunt down to dublin?" "I have been thinking about that." "The state ball's just a month away." "State ball- what's that?" "Sounds fancy." "It's quite elegant, yes." "At dublin castle - home of the viceroy and vicereine." "Vicereine?" "It guess that would be mrs." "Viceroy." "I shouldn't address her as such." "Are you suggesting I might have the opportunity" "To address her at all?" "Scarlett, I believe you're toying with me" "In your very best and most charming southern belle manner." "And what a belle you must have been." "Then, care to escort me" "To the state ball in dublin, lord fenton," "And introduce me to the viceroy and his missis?" "I should be delighted, mrs." "Butler." "Can I have a bit of your time?" "I'm in no hurry." "Will we go to my hovel?" "I'll make you a cup of tea." "After all the times I've asked you" "To show me where you live," "You don't think I'll turn down your invitation?" "I'm going to a horse fair next week." "Are you?" "Where?" "A place called drogheda." "It's a fine fair." "Are you buying or just looking?" "I'm looking to buy." "Was there something special" "You wanted to see me about?" "There is." "Looks like it might be serious." "'tis of an enormous trust, scarlett," "And we're giving you ours." "We?" "Who?" "The fenian brotherhood." "What do you have to do with them, colum?" "A great deal." "You're not one of them?" "That's not what you're telling me?" "Yes, I am." "But you're a priest." "I was an irishman before I was a priest." "Should I be denied my priesthood," "I'd still be an irishman." "They want a revolution, don't they, the fenians?" "The time will come." "Not this year, not next maybe," "But it'll come sure as the day." "It'll take us out of the dark night of oppression" "We've been in 200 years." "You're talking about killing people." "Do you recall telling me" "Your loathing for the union soldiers" "Walking the streets of charleston," "A city under the rule of military government" "Near 10 years after the end of the war you lost?" "Can you imagine that government" "Taking all the bounty of your land" "And sending it north" "Whilst your own people were scrabbling for what's left" "And starving to death?" "Can you imagine that?" "I don't have to imagine it." "It happened to us." "I lived it." "All right, then." "I've got something to show you." "It's all right, brendan." "Is it done?" "It is." "Scarlett, say hello to brendan donnelly." "Hello." "Watch your step." "This is on my land." "And you have a right to know it." "What would happen to me if the english found this?" "I'd lie like the devil if I was you," "And if I was you, I'd get away with it." "We mightn't be so fortunate." "Where do they come from?" "America mostly," "And believe it or not," "We have friends in England." "Would I be correct in assuming" "This is why you do so much traveling?" "You would." "What am I supposed to do now," "Wish you good luck" "And hope a troop of english soldiers" "Don't come banging on my door?" "We'll take the good luck and thank you for it." "But you might do more." "It's not only guns we're involved with." "There's other, gentler work we're about." "Money's needed for that, as well" "Paying rents to keep people in their homes," "Feeding them that are starving," "Clothing children," "Affording them something of an education." "In secret, mind you." "Because educating children" "Is against the law, as well." "I wonder if you realize," "If we'd governed ourselves these last couple centuries," "You wouldn't understand a word I'm saying" "Because I'd be speaking in my own tongue." "I'd be speaking irish." "But I can't speak irish because I never learnt it" "As generations of us never learnt it" "Because it was against the law to learn it," "Against the law to speak it." "Against the english law." "I might have been lots better off" "If I didn't understand a word you've been saying." "What's your estimation?" "I don't know." "We'll have to wait and see." "Has she mentioned lord fenton?" "Not of late." "Why?" "She's made a mention" "Of possibly going to dublin with him." "How would you judge her association with him?" "I'd judge it to have some dark potential." "Toffee-coated apples." "I made them meself." "Two for a farthing." "Have a toffee apple." "Very lovely." "Hello, missis." "Would you like a bunch?" "Look at those teeth." "Come have a toffee apple." "50?" "Say 70." "Come here." "Done." "Don't be bashful." "Have a look." "Perfectly matching 3-year-olds." "I'm glad we came along." "It pains me to think of you being bested" "By an irish horse trader." "What makes you sure I'd be bested?" "You've not made the acquaintance" "Of an irish horse trader." "Fiddle-dee-dee." "You'll see some of the finest horses in the country- 100 guineas for an animal." "I'll get two pair of first-class plow horses" "For less than that." "I'm glad I came along." "You'll definitely need native assistance." "I'm ready to part with them." "Had their mother for years." "Have a look." "Have a look." "Don't be shy." "Perfectly matching 3-year-olds." "70 guineas." "I dare any man to match the bargain." "Ah, look now." "There's a fine lady" "Knows an animal when she sees one." "Don't be shy." "Have a look for yourself." "70 guineas for the pair of them." "3-year-old?" "I've got a grandfather younger than them." "Terrible thing to say about a horse." "Look at that beauty- the gray." "Are you here to buy hunters or plow horses?" "I can look, can't I?" "I wonder how much they're asking." "If you're contemplating riding to hounds," "I'm washing me hands of you totally." "What's that?" "Otherwise known as fox hunting." "I've heard of that." "I've often thought it might" "What is it, scarlett?" "You all right?" "You look like you've seen a ghost." "In a manner of speaking, I guess I have." "What's that?" "Seen a ghost, colum" "One of my own making." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Do you see that tall, very good-looking gentleman there" "With the long coat and brown hat?" "That's my departed husband." "Get away." "Glory be to god." "What are you going to do?" "Now that I've somewhat recovered my wits," "I'll ask you to excuse me." "I'll find you later." "Let's go have a drink." "Penny a bunch." "Hello, rhett." "Dried flowers." "I'd heard a couple of vague rumors" "That you might be in ireland." "If I'd heard rumors you'd be coming," "Maybe I wouldn't be." "I'd no idea of tempting fate." "Maybe we can tempt it, but we sure can't fight it, can we?" "Evidently not." "So how you been?" "I've been just fine." "May I be the last to offer you" "My congratulations on your marriage?" "Thank you." "Did your bride accompany you to ireland?" "She has," "Though she did not come along today." "Anne..." "Well, she's not generally fond of horses." "I hope that's her only failing." "You haven't changed, scarlett." "Why would I?" "There's a refreshment tent that way." "That might do us both good." "Tea, sir?" "It seems you dropped off the face of the earth." "Why all the mystery?" "I needed to burn some bridges." "Are you here sightseeing or in the horse business?" "Both." "Buy anything?" "Not yet." "What are you in the market for?" "A horse that runs like the wind" "Or a horse that'll sire one that can." "I want a horse running in the kentucky derby." "Running in what?" "It's a new race running this year." "They figure to make it the biggest race in the country." "Maybe they will." "You living around these parts now?" "No." "I'm letting a small cottage" "In county kildare." "A small cottage..." "Doesn't sound like you, scarlett." "A glass of champagne, please." "Here's my advisor in the emerald isle." "Does he know I'm your former wife?" "No." "Good." "It's what I'd prefer." "There you are, rhett." "Sorry." "I happened to run into..." "Into an old friend." "Sir john morland." "Mrs. O'hara." "Pleased to meet you." "A fellow countryman of rhett's." "Visiting ireland, are you?" "Wonderful country." "Do you hunt?" "I don't like guns." "No." "I mean riding to hounds." "Oh." "Fox hunting." "I've never done it." "We must correct that, by all means." "Might you join us this weekend?" "My wife and I will be delighted to see you" "And mr." "O'hara, of course." "I'm widowed." "Oh." "I'm terribly sorry," "But the invitation stands, of course." "We're near dunsany." "Do you know that country?" "Morland manor." "Anyone will tell you the way." "Rhett, I've seen a marvelous bay you must see." "Bidding starts at 10:30 sharp." "I'll see you there." "Mrs. O'hara, delighted." "Now you won't disappoint me?" "I don't believe I will." "Saturday next." "Stirrup cup at 7:00." "Breakfast after." "Widowed?" "What a charming man." "Widowed?" "Better widowed than divorced." "If telling people being divorced by your husband" "Is so humiliating for you," "Tell them you divorced him." "I didn't think of that until it was too late." "I wasn't operating at full mental capacity at the time." "All you have to do is this one small favor." "It's the least you owe me." "We settled all our debts to each other." "All right." "Forget about owing it," "But you don't actually have to tell any lies." "Just let people believe I am what I say I am." "My old friend from home" "Mrs. O'hara?" "Will you, for old time's sake?" "It won't be easy pretending I'm a corpse," "But I'll do my best." "I knew you wouldn't be a skunk." "That's how you left it?" "You're living alone temporarily in kildare." "No mention of the baby?" "He'll buy his horse, go back home," "And that'll be the end of it." "Oh, what a tangled web we weave." "What?" "Oh, what a tangled web we weave" "When first we practice to deceive." "Credit sir walter scott for that observation." "I never was much on reading." "Was she always so odd?" "Scarlett isn't odd, darling." "She's, uh..." "Unusual." "Saying she's a widow?" "Honestly, I don't find that unusual." "I find that quite odd." "It's a harmless little game." "You will go along, won't you?" "If it's what you wish, of course I will." "I wonder what it'll be like," "Seeing her again..." "The way things are." "Oh, beautiful, beautiful weather." "Here you are, ma'am." "Milady." "Don't make that mistake again." "Seamus, fetch the hounds." "Yes, sir." "Isn't that the american woman?" "Mrs. O'hara, yes." "I'll have a word with her." "Charles, over here." "Good morning." "Good morning, lady morland." "Perfect day for a hunt." "I really wouldn't know." "This is to be your first go, isn't it?" "First time for everything." "We'll keep an eye on you." "Don't concern yourself." "I'm a quick study." "I beg your pardon?" "I learn fast." "What happens when you get the fox?" "Strictly speaking, we don't catch it." "The dogs do." "They make rather a mess of it." "If you're queasy, don't look." "Does the fox ever get away?" "Rarely." "You sit that horse" "As if you've ridden to hounds before." "Looks can be deceiving." "Evidently." "Good morning, mr." "Butler." "Good morning, rhett." "I'd begun to think you wouldn't be along." "Where's your lovely wife?" "She's not joining us today." "I forgot." "She doesn't care for horses." "Pity." "Good hunting, scarlett." "Same to you." "The fox gets away though, sometimes." "Yoo!" "Halloo!" "Tally-ho!" "Scarlett!" "Scarlett!" "Scarlett." "Hello, scarlett." "Do you remember me?" "I'm anne butler," "Formerly hampton." "Sure I remember you." "Where's rhett?" "Oh, he's downstairs." "I'm to fetch him when you come awake." "I'm awake." "Just barely, I should say." "The doctor says nothing's broken," "Thank goodness." "He thinks you have a slight concussion." "I've got a lump the size of a potato." "I haven't been thrown from a horse" "Since I was 10." "But it was your first fox hunt, rhett said." "It won't be my last." "It's lovely to see you again." "Did rhett tell you, should anyone inquire," "There's only one mrs." "Butler here" "And you're her?" "If you're referring to your supposed widowhood," "He explained it to me." "I should say, he told me." "Its explanation is something that escapes me." "How come you're here?" "I came with rhett, of course." "Not ireland." "Here." "I don't know I can rightly say." "It just came over me to want to see you," "In a private moment, I mean." "Rhett says you knew we were married." "Were you surprised when you heard?" "I don't recall feeling surprised, no." "Shouldn't you rest a bit longer?" "I wish someone would saddle that horse again." "I haven't been thrown since I was 10." "Rhett does say you're unusual." "Does he?" "What else does he say about me?" "Why, nothing." "What would he say?" "Maybe that I was the biggest fool god ever made" "And treated him dreadfully" "Until I realized how much I loved him." "Then it was too late, and he divorced me." "Then added injury to insult" "And married you." "He might have said something along those lines." "He never once so much as hinted" "At anything remotely similar" "To what you just described." "You love him, huh?" "Of course I do." "I adore him." "Me, too." "You must hate me, then," "Feeling as you do about rhett." "Don't take it personal." "I'd hate anybody who was married to rhett." "You must hate me especially now, then." "What in the blue blazes are you talking about?" "About the baby, of course." "What baby?" "My baby," "The one I'm going to have." "I feel so perfectly ridiculous," "Being affected that way." "Wasn't it absolutely silly of me?" "I mean, as if I didn't know" "Of course it was inevitable, wasn't it?" "People get married." "People have babies." "Night follows day, doesn't it?" "She'll probably bear him 10 children." "See if I care." "I'm going to dublin." "Did I tell you?" "No." "I'm going to dublin." "That'll be a welcome change for you." "I'll say it will." "I'm going to meet the viceroy and his what's it?" "What's she called?" "The viceroy and the vicereine of ireland, that is." "Doesn't it sound grand?" "He's cousin to the queen of England." "Yes, I know." "How's all this coming about?" "Lord fenton." "I thought as much." "You're becoming more like a landlord, scarlett." "I am a landlord." "Yes, but so far you've been one of ours." "Would you rather be one of theirs?" "Don't be ridiculous, colum." "You'll make me cross" "If you pass your irish judgments on me." "There's no judgment in it, only guidance." "I'd hate to see you set your course" "On the path of folly." "I'm going to dublin for fun." "I'll be escorted by a perfectly respectable gentleman," "Who happens to be english." "If there's any path of folly," "It's the one I'm setting foot on with this." "What's this?" "What the heck you think?" "It's not a sack of stones." "I said I'd think it over." "I've thought it over." "It's for helping people, not killing them." "Not a shilling of that" "Is intended to purchase one bullet." "I assume I have your word on that." "It's more than we could've hoped for," "Ever expected, scarlett." "I have a tendency to overdo things." "Bye." "Welcome to the hotel shelbourne," "Mrs. Butler." "May your stay be an altogether memorable one." "I'm just sure it will be." "Now, mrs." "Fitzpatrick, let me show you to your room." "This way." "Tomorrow?" "So soon?" "I thought I'd have more time to get myself ready." "There'll be plenty of time." "I'll tell you everything you need to know." "How much will I need to know?" "Your right hand from your left." "Can't be that easy being presented to ireland's viceroy" "In dublin castle's throne room." "Shall I take you through it, step-by-step?" "Somebody better." "You'll be with others to be presented," "Awaiting your turn." "How will I know when it's my turn?" "The gentleman usher will call your name." "You look marvelous." "Madame the o'hara of ballyhara!" "Your excellency," "Madame the o'hara of ballyhara." "I almost tripped on that third step back." "Did anybody notice?" "Certainly not." "You were impeccable." "I feel like cinderella." "After this evening, you'll have your pick of princes." "Do I have to have a prince?" "Couldn't I just be cinderella without a prince?" "Out of the question." "It wouldn't be quite the same." "You'd find your cinderellahood" "Lacking in certain essential elements." "I better keep my eyes open." "Too bad the viceroy's already married." "Hardly your type if he weren't." "What would you say my type is?" "You know perfectly well." "But you're not a prince, you're an earl." "You know what they'd say about me back home?" "They'd say I was in high courting." "Do you have a mrs." "O'hara staying with you here?" "May I ask which mrs." "O'hara" "You're inquiring of, sir?" "How many are there?" "We've three mrs." "O'haras, sir." "There's mrs." "James o'hara" "And mrs." "Connor o'hara" "And there's mrs." "Firtle o'hara." "Do you have a mrs.-Uh-butler?" "Oh, indeed, yes, sir, we have." "How many of those are there?" "There's only one mrs." "Butler" "Whose custom we've the pleasure of, sir." "Damn right." "Be sure she has a hat, bridle." "There's a chill today." "I will that." "Message for you, mrs." "Butler." "Thank you." "Why, rhett..." "I guess I'd have to say you're full of surprises" "As to where you'll turn up next." "I was afraid if I gave you advance warning," "You might run off again," "Like you did last time." "That was rude of me." "I just wanted to depart with as little fuss as possible." "I declare, I haven't been thrown from a horse" "Since I was 10." "What brings you to dublin," "And how did you know where I was stopping?" "Stopping?" "Staying." "Maybe I've been over here too long." "How did you know I was even in dublin?" "Your name was in the irish times." "You've become one of the belles of the balls here." "I could use a spot of fresh air, couldn't you?" "Flowers, ladies and gentlemen." "Lovely spring flowers." "Nice fresh flowers here, ladies and gentlemen." "you're looking especially" "Rosy-cheeked and vibrant, scarlett." "I'd take you for native irish," "If I didn't know better." "Must be the irish air." "You intend breathing it for some time to come?" "What do you mean?" "Will you make your life here now?" "Oh, I don't know." "I don't think much about the future," "At least not too far into it." "I stopped doing that when you divorced me." "I stopped more when I heard you'd married." "Last week at lord morland's I guess I stopped altogether." "Why?" "When your wife told me" "She was going to have a baby." "Could be my imagination," "But I felt she enjoyed telling me." "Naturally, I am very pleased with her condition." "That's not what I mean." "I got the feeling" "There was a touch of her gloating in telling me." "You must be imagining that." "I can't imagine why anne would gloat in it." "Oh, rhett, you'll never understand women." "You never will." "She knows I'm still in love with you." "Scarlett..." "Oh, don't look so innocent and frazzled, rhett butler." "You think because you stopped loving me," "I stopped loving you?" "Is that what you've been telling yourself?" "Lord knows, I never, in my wildest dreams," "Ever thought I'd tell a man I loved him" "Who I knew in advance wasn't going to say it back." "I guess some things you got to be true about." "What?" "I'm sorry." "I am so sorry." "It's not your fault." "I brought it on myself." "You didn't bring anything on yourself." "It was just" "Oh, be quiet, rhett." "What do you know about it?" "Maybe you don't know as much as you think you know." "You don't even know what I'm talking about." "Tell me, then." "I could've been a better wife to you than I was" "If I'd had the chance when I was ready to be that." "You didn't give me the chance." "Now it's-it's too late." "That's all I'm talking about." "It wasn't my intent to cause you distress" "By coming to see you." "You have my apologies for that." "You going to be in dublin long?" "I'll take care of my business this afternoon." "I'll be gone by morning." "Then we shouldn't have any trouble avoiding each other." "None whatsoever." "You hoping for a boy or a girl?" "Scarlett." "Why did you come?" "Why did you?" "Why did you come?" "You've seemed not altogether your usual self this evening, scarlett." "Really?" "I've discerned a certain air" "Of melancholy about you." "I guess I'm just a little bit tired out." "I've gotten unused to the social whirl maybe." "You must accustom yourself to it again," "Mustn't you?" "I don't know." "Must I?" "Will you return to your bucolic existence" "In ballyhara" "And leave me desolate?" "I suspect a man like you" "Wouldn't be too very desolate" "For too very long, richard." "You flatter me" "And underestimate yourself, scarlett." "You're welcome to the flattery," "But I'm far too immodest" "To ever underestimate myself." "You can be scarifyingly candid at times, can't you?" "Every once in a while." "In the spirit of candor, then," "May I suggest that you're fully aware" "Of my feelings for you?" "Sure, I am." "You're a woman of maturity and no little experience." "I am myself not altogether without a certain appeal," "I'd like to think." "You're entirely justified in thinking it." "But I confess I find your reticence somewhat baffling." "I guess it would be." "Would it offend you" "If I were to ask for an explanation?" "That would be fair enough." "It's not you that I don't care for." "It's another man that I love." "How could I not have been aware of him?" "Who is he?" "You are aware of him." "I was married to him." "Good lord." "You don't mean your late husband?" "I'm afraid I do." "Oh, my dearest darling scarlett..." "Will you pine the rest of your days" "For a dead man?" "I suppose he is dead for me, isn't he?" "Suppose?" "I" "I don't understand." "I mean, I suppose he should be dead for me." "He must be, scarlett." "Let him be" "So that you may live." "I want to." "I want to live." "You've made me an extremely happy man this evening," "My darling." "I wanted to." "I wanted to make some" "I wanted to make you happy." "I've never had intimate congress" "With a man who wasn't my husband." "I suspected as much." "And it's been quite some time since." "Another of my suspicions confirmed." "I was pretty clumsy then, you're saying." "I'm saying nothing of the kind." "My assumptions are founded on your behavior" "Before we entered this room, not after." "Now I'm embarrassed." "Oh, shoot." "You have nothing to be embarrassed about, scarlett." "You're a marvelous woman." "I still don't feel natural." "Number 25, please." "Ah, mrs." "Fitzpatrick." "This, uh, telegraph just come moments ago for mrs." "Butler." "Sent on from ballyhara, it looks." "I was sending someone to slip it under her door." "I'll see to it." "Good night, mrs." "Fitzpatrick." "Good night, mr." "O'brien." "Rather late for a caller." "Maybe it's about the baby." "Mrs. Fitz." "Is cat all right?" "Perfectly fine." "Excuse the lateness of the hour." "Here's this telegraph for you." "Being rare as they are," "I thought it best you got it right away." "I hope I haven't" "Good evening, mrs." "Fitzpatrick." "Good evening, sir." "Good evening, sir." "Thank you, mrs." "Fitz." "Good night." "Did you feel it quite necessary" "To declare your presence in my bedroom?" "I'd have much preferred it if you hadn't." "Why, darling?" "Because we aren't man and wife, that's why." "Mrs. Fitzpatrick is a woman of mature years," "And I feel sure, some considerable experience of life." "She was mortified." "A little startled, perhaps." "As your servant, she's in no position to be mortified" "By her mistress' actions." "She's not my servant." "Employee, then." "Whatever you like." "But in any case, you're being altogether unreasonable." "Unreasonable?" "Well, maybe it's unreasonable to you," "But it's my reputation!" "Scarlett," "Your reputation is quite secure, my darling." "I assure you." "We're all considerably sophisticated people," "Are we not?" "You suppose your reputation will suffer one iota" "When the nature of our association becomes known?" "I promise you it won't." "Who says it's going to become known?" "But it will be presumed, however discreetly." "Surely you realize that." "I suppose you'll be running all over dublin" "Blabbing you've enjoyed my favors." "Now you're being quite silly." "What I'm being is quite furious!" "You do have something of a temper, don't you?" "I believe I've exhausted my reserves of solicitude." "Good night, scarlett." "I do hope the morning" "Finds you in a more agreeable temper." "Mrs. Fitz, go down to the hall porter." "Have him consult the shipping news." "Find when the next boat" "Sails from galway to america." "We're leaving for ballyhara in the morning." "Here's the o'hara back, is it not?" "Sooner than looked for." "How are you, sean?" "Morning, father." "What happ-colum." "Welcome home." "Not for long." "What's in the wind?" "I've had a telegraph from my lawyer in atlanta." "My sister suellen is gravely ill." "She's asking for me." "That would be the one you've always had" "Somewhat contentious relations with?" "But she's asking for me." "I'd figured me to be the last person she'd be wanting." "All the more reason to go." "There's a ship out of galway day after tomorrow." "You best make haste." "That's what I'm making." "I'll be up to ballyhara to see you off." "Would you inform mrs." "Butler that I'm here?" "Mrs. Butler made her departure from the hotel" "Rather early this morning." "Departure?" "What are you talking about?" "Oh, yes, sir, indeed." "She asked that you be handed this" "Should you be by." "Take care on the steps, now." "Mind the steps as you come, please." "Get it up on top, please," "And leave space for the other things." "Mrs. Fitz tells me you're leaving the child behind." "I'm not altogether comfortable about it," "But she'll be fine here." "In atlanta, there's too much chance" "Of rhett getting wind of her." "I've already had a real close call in dublin." "Don't look at me that way." "I know how you feel, but she's my baby." "I'll decide what's best for her." "And for you." "All right, then." "And for me." "Now stop looking at me like a priest" "And wish me a bon voyage." "You'll write." "I will." "Goodbye." "They're lovers." "What?" "Her and fenton." "What are you saying?" "What I've said." "How do you know?" "What would you make of him coming half-dressed" "Out of her bedroom at night?" "She should never have been told about us." "There's danger in her now." "Don't be daft, woman." "He's in her bed." "She'll be in his." "There's anything could come of it." "Atlanta, georgia." "This stop is atlanta, georgia." "Scarlett!" "Scarlett." "Have I come in time?" "Thank god." "Where is she, at tara?" "No, in the hospital here." "What's wrong with her, will?" "Having a baby." "She had an awful time." "There was all sorts of infections set in and fevers and" "She didn't want any more babies, will benteen." "Did it live?" "It's a boy." "So suellen could be dying" "Just because you had to have a boy?" "I swear, I'll never understand men." "I never will." "Suellen?" "Suellen, honey?" "Are you awake?" "Scarlett?" "Oh, scarlett, you've come." "Of course I have, you ninny." "Did you think I wouldn't?" "Will..." "Scarlett's come." "I know, dear heart." "Didn't I tell you she would?" "Oh, we got a boy, scarlett." "So I heard." "Looks like you paid high for it, too." "Was worth it." "Will so wanted a boy." "I named him gerald." "After pa." "That's fine, suellen." "That's so fine." "Where is he?" "At-at tara." "Which is where you'll be quick as a blink, sister." "They're saying I might not die after all." "Fiddle-dee-dee." "Of course you're not going to die." "I didn't come this far" "To watch you kick the bucket." "You've been away such a long time, scarlett." "I know." "It's good to be back." "You're staying home for good?" "Soon as I figure out where home is," "That's where I'll be staying, honey." "This is your home, scarlett." "This has always been your home." "We'll talk about it tomorrow." "What are the doctors saying?" "They're saying she's probably going to come through," "But probably is about as far as they'll go." "She looks terrible." "Should have seen her two weeks ago." "You going to be here for a while-in atlanta?" "Course I am," "At least until suellen's back home at tara." "If that's what we can still call it." "Meaning what?" "Well, meaning we got notice long time back" "That you bought up careen's share of tara" "Which pretty much makes you most the owner of it." "Most, maybe..." "But not only." "I'm heading back to the peachtree street house..." "Make myself decent so I can come back" "And spend some time with suellen." "I telegraphed uncle henry" "To have it made presentable." "I hope he managed it." "If you said to, scarlett, I bet he did." "Whose idea was it naming the baby after our pa?" "That was my idea." "Thank you, will." "You're entirely welcome, scarlett." "Whoa..." "Ma'am." "Good afternoon, ma'am." "I presume you'd be mrs." "Butler." "What's your name?" "Ransom, ma'am." "Hello, ransom." "I assume you were engaged by mr." "Hamilton." "Yes, ma'am." "Tell me, are there other staff as well?" "A cook and a parlor maid" "And a personal maid for yourself." "She's unpacking your luggage right now." "Good heavens!" "Pansy!" "Welcome home, miss scarlett." "What are you doing here?" "Well, I been working for mr." "Ashley, miss india," "And miss pittypat since you gone wherever you went." "Mr. Hamilton told mr." "Ashley you was coming back." "Mr. Ashley asked if I wanted to help out," "I said I sure do." "So here I am." "You're a sight for sore eyes, pansy." "So is you, miss scarlett." "Wherever you been to, anyhow?" "Mm..." "Scarlett." "Scarlett." "Oh, my." "I was asleep." "Was I sleeping?" "You were asleep when I arrived." "I guess I fell asleep waiting for you to wake up." "How are you feeling?" "Thirsty." "You should be home in bed." "Isn't it awful late?" "You look a bit better than this afternoon." "Should I dare look in a mirror?" "Not yet." "I must look a fright." "Where's will?" "He was leaving as I was coming in." "He said he'll be back first thing in the morning." "I can't wait to see your new baby." "How about the other kids?" "Oh, they're fine." "Susie's blooming." "She's crazy about horses." "She's getting to be a wonderful rider." "Reminds me of you when you were little." "Made me nervous at first," "Remembering your bonnie and her" "Oh, shoot, scarlett, I am sorry." "I shouldn't have mentioned it." "It's all right." "What about martha and peggy?" "They're fine." "Will says they're beside themselves" "Having a baby brother." "Means such a lot to me that you came, scarlett." "For me, I mean." "I didn't think you would." "We're neither of us getting any younger, suellen." "With any luck, we'll both be living a good time longer." "I'd say it's time we buried the hatchet." "You mean someplace besides in each other's backs?" "Oh..." "What?" "Oh, just a little twinge." "Will said you wasn't supposed to be doing too much talking." "You want me to read to you?" "I haven't been read to since mama used to." "If you're not out of here before I reach chapter three," "I'll never forgive you." ""it was a golden morning in the early spring," "And the land blossomed as it rose."" "Are you home for good, as I hope?" "I'm not altogether sure this is home anymore, if truth be told." "Tell me about yourself, ashley." "I hear from henry the lumberyard is flourishing." "Oh, yes." "Yes, it is, thanks to you." "What have I got to do with it?" "Before you tell another of your awful fibs," "The cat was let out of the bag in your absence." "Which cat?" "Atlanta acres real estate incorporated." "That cat." "You found out." "Poor big sam." "He let something slip," "And I badgered him until he had to confess" "That atlanta acres real estate incorporated" "Was, and is, mrs." "Scarlett o'hara butler." "You little vixen." "Darn." "How can I thank you, scarlett?" "Don't you dare to try, ashley wilkes." "My lips are sealed." "My heart, however, will never stop speaking its gratitude." "As for me being mrs." "Scarlett o'hara butler," "I guess you must surely know I'm that no longer." "Ohh..." "You're well rid of him, scarlett." "He was never..." "Never worthy of you." "Maybe you can put it all behind you now as if it never happened." "I don't think I'll ever do that, ashley." "Why, dearest?" "Why?" "I can't tell you." "Cannot or will not?" "Have it your way." "I will not." "Then you must be fearful of consequences." "I never realized till this moment" "How much I want to tell it..." "Tell somebody." "Somebody..." "Maybe it's being here again," "Being home." "Could I be so mistaken after all these years" "That I'm unable to imagine you capable of anything so terrible" "As to cause you such fearsome anguish?" "You never saw me clear, ashley." "You never did." "Then let me now." "I have a child, ashley." "I've borne rhett's child." "I'm selling up, uncle henry." "Selling up what, scarlett?" "Everything." "The whole kit and caboodle." "The store, the peachtree street house," "The housing tract, all of it." "I'm relinquishing my assets here," "Cleaning my slate." "Why in the world?" "I've found a new life for myself." "I can't start living it to the fullest" "With one foot in atlanta" "And the other in ireland." "Why don't you just plant them both here?" "I've given that a lot of thought, henry," "But I don't believe my heart's here any longer." "A person has to be where their heart is, don't they?" "Well, this is a bad time to sell, scarlett." "We're having a depression here." "Business is bad in general." "The real estate market is the hardest hit," "And the hardest-hit real estate is big places like yours." "People are moving down generally, not up." "How about the housing tract?" "Well, that's a different story." "Those kind of houses sell as soon as you put them up." "You're making a fortune there." "I assume you've read your financial statement." "You'd be smart to put up another 50 houses out there." "I'm divesting, uncle henry, not investing." "Well, suit yourself." "If you don't want to bother with selling my property," "I won't take it against you." "Just tell me." "Well, I'm an old man, scarlett." "But if you're dead set on this course of action," "I want to be the one to take care of it for you." "Thank you, henry." "What about tara?" "I'm not selling tara." "There's only one other person in the world who knows." "He's my cousin." "He's a priest." "I hope I can trust you like I trust him." "How could you doubt it, scarlett?" "I don't doubt it." "I just felt I had to say that." "I'd die before revealing your secret to a living soul." "But..." "Will you never tell rhett?" "I don't know about never." "Never's like always." "They're words, in my experience," "It's best not to get overly attached to." "Is there nothing that might induce you to remain here?" "That bright light in the sky behind me" "Is my bridges burning, ashley." "Well..." "I guess the past has been neatly, finally finished." "Almost." ""as the king's escort" ""prepared to go forth to meet him," "Were not..." "Were not..."" "Conducive." ""conducive to repose," "Had not the excitement of..."" "Didn't you have the slightest twinge" "Giving up the peachtree street house?" "That fabulous house." "Maybe just a slight one, naturally." "It's where I lived with rhett" "And where bonnie was born." "If the truth be known," "What I mostly felt was relief." "When that girl's school made the offer," "Uncle henry jumped at it." "Next to having a large happy family in it," "It being a girls' school is the next best thing." "What about the store?" "Turns out the land it's standing on" "Is worth more than the place." "The people that bought it are going to tear it down" "And put up a building eight stories high." "It'll be scraping the sky." "I can hardly imagine it myself." "Anyhow, now there's just the one piece of business" "Left for me to attend to." "That'd be tara." "Are you thinking about" "Selling your share of tara, scarlett?" "No." "I'm giving it away." "Giving it away?" "Who to?" "To suellen." "Oh, scarlett, do you mean it?" "Oh, will." "That's awful decent of you, scarlett." "Fiddle-dee-dee." "Maybe you'll pass it on to your son," "And a gerald o'hara will be master of tara again." "The hatchet's buried." "From the first tara, pa..." "To the last." "Whoa, now." "Whoa." "Welcome back, madam." "Sweetheart!" "Look at you!" "Oh, darling." "Hello, mrs." "Fitz." "Welcome back, mrs." "Butler." "It's grand to be back." "Did you get my letter?" "I did." "All has been attended to for your arrival." "Lovely." "I'd no idea I'd miss it so much." "Did blue bonnet foal?" "Did indeed, with a fine mare." "I haven't expressed our relief" "To have heard the news of your sister." "Thank you." "She'll be fit as a fiddle now." "And how is mrs." "Brophy's condition?" "All recovered, thanks be to god." "I passed on your good wishes." "I'll drop in on her tomorrow." "If you're not in need of me immediately," "I'll see to the unpacking." "Yes." "Thank you." "I brought some gifts wrapped in brown parcels." "Just lay them out, will you?" "My darling scarlett," "What an incorrigible vixen you are." "Shame, shame for having so taken your precipitous leave" "Without affording me" "The opportunity to wish you good fortune" "In what, in the unfortunate circumstances," "Must surely have been an extremely anxious journey" "To your homeland." "I hope that you arrived in time" "To witness the complete recovery of your sister." "But my most fervent wish," "As you must surely suppose," "Is that there be no delay whatsoever" "In your communication with me" "Upon your most eagerly awaited return." "Yours, richard." "You're late." "Considerably so." "It's a wonder I'm here at all." "Oh, really?" "I could hardly bring meself to come." "No." "No more." "Don't be silly." "I've something to tell you." "We'll discuss it later, shall we?" "We'll discuss it now!" "Aah!" "What sort of unspeakable devil" "Could do what you've just done?" "What is it you paddies say?" "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't?" "May god have mercy on me" "For carrying the child of that devil, then." "Welcome back!" "It's the o'hara!" "She's back." "Welcome home." "Welcome back!" "Glad to see you back." "So that's that," "And that's all there is to it." "I had to make a decision once and for all," "And it's made." "That part of my life is done for." "I'm raring to go to begin the next part," "Which is here and now." "Look here." "I don't know" "If it's me and my imagination," "But I get the funniest feeling" "You haven't heard a word I've said." "Nothing of the kind." "I heard every word." "And pleased I was to hear them." "There's something on your mind, isn't there?" "Has something happened since I've been away you're not saying?" "If there is, I wish you'd just say it, colum o'hara." "I'm waiting, colum." "I have no right to speak what's in me mind." "I could curse myself for betraying it enough" "To cause your suspicion of it." "You should be proud of your incapability to deceive." "If I were as good a person as you," "Things in my life would be altogether different." "I am not good." "God help me, I'm not good." "Colum, what's the matter?" "I'm smitten, scarlett." "You've come into my heart" "The way no woman ever should." "No." "Colum, no." "Oh, that you might will these feelings from my heart" "With that word, scarlett." "No, no." "Do you suppose I haven't cried it out to myself" "Night after night with every dawn?" "No, I've said." "No!" "You cannot, colum o'hara." "You may not." "You must not." "Oh, dear colum." "I never imagined." "Nor did I." "Nor, god forgive me, did I." "What can I do?" "Let me help you." "Please, let me help you." "I cannot bear to face you." "I beg you, please, don't require it of me." "Go on!" "Go on!" "Rhett?" "Hi, anne." "What are you doing out here?" "Waiting for you." "Guess you've been down with that horse again." "Well, he's such a fine horse." "I never tire of looking at him." "It's the middle of the night." "Couldn't sleep." "Seems like there's a lot of nights" "You can't sleep." "And when you do, you don't sleep easy." "Have I been disturbing you?" "I'm so sorry, dearest." "It's not a question of what's been disturbing me." "It's a question of what's disturbing you." "The only thing that's disturbing me right now" "Is seeing you out here in your nightdress" "Probably catching your death of cold." "Come inside." "Let's warm you up." "It's ever since ireland." "What's ever since ireland?" "You haven't been the same" "Since we came back - since before we came back." "I don't know what you mean." "I guess you do, rhett." "It's scarlett." "Scarlett?" "What scarlett, anne?" "Are seeing her again?" "It's scarlett, isn't it?" "I haven't the foggiest notion" "What you're talking about." "Maybe I'm not so quick a mind as you," "But I'm not a fool either." "I've noticed the way you've been since that fox hunt." "What way have I been?" "Like maybe you needed spectacles to see me." "My darling, I can assure you," "I can see you as clear as clear can be." "As beautiful to behold as you are." "Maybe you never should've divorced her." "They do say ladies in your delicate condition" "Get some pretty wild ideas sometimes." "You said her name." "I don't understand." "In your sleep one night, you said her name!" "You said "scarlett," just like that." "I didn't know I talked in my sleep." "Maybe just when you got something important to say." "What do you mean by that?" "I don't know what I mean!" "Do you love me, rhett?" "Do you?" "Tell me you love me." "Of course I love you." "Of course I do." "I love you, anne." "I love you." "Of course I do." "Good day, milord." "Whoa." "To your most welcome and longed-for return..." "Dearest scarlett." "Did you miss me?" "You may be as assured of that" "As the sun setting in the west." "I guess that's pretty sure." "Dare I ask the same of you, I wonder." "I could play the coy and tantalizing maiden at this point," "But I expect it's a little late for that." "And it wouldn't become you." "What would?" "In my brief but memorable experience of you, scarlett," "I believe you're in no need of guidance" "In that regard." "I guess not, or I wouldn't have" "Given my staff the evening off." "I'll have it to you Wednesday." "Great." "I guess you couldn't expect to avoid me forever." "This is a real small town." "It isn't so much avoiding you, scarlett," "As sparing you." "Sparing me what?" "The further discomfort of my inexcusable revelations." "The discomfort to me is more than I have words to say." "It hasn't occurred to you" "That I might've been flattered." "I'd have to admit to the utter remoteness of that possibility," "My fine scarlett." "If you weren't wearing that turned-around collar," "I might say things" "But I am, and you mustn't." "Well, then, I won't." "But I'm darned if I'm going to let it be" "Like some terrible dark cloud hanging over us." "I hope you won't either." "If you do, I'll never speak to you again." "I have no defense against so dire a threat as that." "That's the end of it, then." "We can't pretend what was said never was," "But we don't have to keep listening to it." "In this instance, scarlett," "Your beauty is exceeded only by your wisdom." "Fiddle-dee-dee." "I'll have none of that blarney if you please." "I guess I owe you something of a confession myself." "Not that you need to hear it from me." "I'm sure it's known all the way to county cork by now." "There isn't much one can keep private in these parts." "I guess you know what I'm talking about." "I suppose you're referring" "To your present association with lord fenton." "I wish you'd heard it from me first." "It's no matter how I heard." "Are you disappointed in me, colum?" "Not a bit." "I'm only a bit worried for you." "I can't say what's happened with him and me" "Hadn't crossed my mind in a vague way." "I guess it was hearing rhett's wife was having a baby" "That tipped the scales." "I had a suspicion that might be the way of it." "Don't worry about me." "I'll be fine." "I've been taking care of myself for quite some time." "Will you come up for supper one evening soon?" "Try and stop me." "By the way," "Where is that blarney stone anyhow?" "It's been a long while since I kissed it." "Mary, come in." "Mary." "Darling, what is it?" "Help me, father colum." "Please, god help me." "Shh." "O'hara..." "You must surely be the relation" "Scarlett's mentioned in passing." "The priest." "Cousin, is it?" "The same." "And to what do I owe the purpose" "Of this unlikely call?" "I've come on behalf of mary boyle." "I don't understand." "Oh, but certainly you do, fenton." "I've come to ask that you do the decent thing" "By this piteous child" "To grant her the reasonable and desperate request" "She's made of you and that you've refused." "Money." "No more than's enough" "To spare her the shame and ignominy" "Should she remain here in ireland." "She wants no more than her passage to america" "And the paltry funds to see her through" "Until the birth of her child." "So small a charity for a man of your means." "I'd believed your religious persuasion" "Is the source of all charity in this country." "What would be a pittance to you is beyond our means." "And if it were not beyond our means," "It would be impossible anyway, given her predicament." "Yes." "Of course." "I see." "It would be tantamount" "To condoning her grievous fall from grace, wouldn't it?" "Pity." "Can't you make the honorable gesture if only this once?" "I believe all has been said that needs saying, o'hara." "I'll ask you to leave now." "This isn't the face you show to scarlett, is it?" "Surely not." "She hasn't seen this heartless visage, has she?" "Would you prefer to be escorted out?" "What if she were to know this vile face?" "Could she stomach the looking upon it again?" "I think not." "What's your reckoning on the matter, fenton?" "Do I perceive a threat to my association with scarlett?" "There are those who need saving from themselves" "And their blind folly." "In respect of you, scarlett is surely one of them." "Any such revelations to scarlett would of course result" "In most unwelcome consequences for me." "Precisely." "Such consequences..." "Would be entirely..." "Unacceptable." "You understand?" "You don't suppose you frighten me with that, do you?" "Would that I might," "But you will not be frightened." "You will not be deterred." "Alas."