"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." "God's nightgown!" "Who'd have thought" "I'd ever set foot in savannah again?" "Father will be thrilled to pieces that you have." "To pieces." "You know what pa used to say about grandfather" "Pierre robillard wouldn't give you the time of day" "If your watch was broke." "Even mother laughed at that." "She couldn't deny it, not even about her own father." "I suppose father never was" "Very fond of gerald o'hara, if truth be told." "At least I can see my other kin while I'm here." "What kin is that?" "My o'hara kin." "Perhaps you better not make note of that intention" "To your grandfather, scarlett." "Perhaps not." "Will mind your manners, won't you, scarlett?" "Father is quite old and considerably frail." "Considerably." "Wouldn't do to tax his declining strength" "With your sometimes- how shall I put it" "Quite forthright manner." "Will it be necessary to genuflect" "When he grants me audience?" "That's what I'm talking about, scarlett." "You are just being naughty on purpose." "On purpose." "Well, jerome, we're here." "We're here." "Welcome again to savannah and home, ma'am." "Thank you." "Jerome, this is our niece, mrs." "Butler." "Yes, I remember miz butler." "How are you, jerome?" "I'm well and fine, ma'am," "And hoping' the same for yourself." "Jerome!" "Is that them come?" "The mister's had his sleeping chamber relocated" "To the parlor floor of the house, ma'am." "The staircase had become a considerable trial for him to manage." "Jerome!" "Yes, sir, mister, coming right along now." "Doesn't sound all that frail to me." "He's asking for you now, dearest." "I'll be just a minute, aunt eulie." "He could scarcely believe that you were here." "I can scarcely believe it myself." "You will be nice now, won't you, scarlett?" "I will, aunt eulie, I promise." "Oh, bless you." "I don't know why I'm caring how I look anyhow." "He's probably blind as a bat by now." "I'll try to keep my promise," "But if you hear any shooting, it'll be me." "Hello, grandfather." "Are you awake?" "It's scarlett, grandfather." "I had hoped that, in time," "You would come to favor less your father and more your mother." "I see I am to be disappointed in that wish." "I guess so." "I'm more o'hara than robillard, grandfather." "Always have been, if I dare say so here." "I've never known you not to say whatever you dared." "Sit." "I promised aunt eulie" "I'd be on my best behavior." "You have grown older." "So have you." "But not to such advantage." "Why, grandfather," "Am I mishearing a remark" "That sounded so breathtakingly close to a compliment?" "To what do we owe" "The dubious pleasure of your presence here in savannah?" "That's more like it." "Aunt eulalie and aunt pauline invited me" "To celebrate your birthday." "It seemed an appropriate opportunity for me" "To attend to a few other matters here." "Other matters?" "One personal, the other more like business." "As to the business" "Have you come to beg money again?" "I never begged you for money, grandfather." "I only asked for a loan to feed my starving family" "After the yankees passed through" "Leaving nothing but ruin and death behind them." "I got along without your help." "I am now a woman of considerable means." "And I'm here to spend some of that" "On what one of my sisters saw fit to give away." "I would have to wonder" "What it might be" "That your sister would value so little" "And you so much." "Tara." "Ahh-ha ha." "Fabled tara." "There's no fable to it." "It's home." "At least it was" "Till careen decided to give away her 1/3 share in it." "Seems she turned severely religious for some reason." "It's her intention to become a nun." "Careen always was kind of flighty." "To be a catholic, of course," "Requires in the first instance" "A certain degree of mental instability." "You made mention of some personal reason for your presence here." "I'm going to search out my relatives." "Relatives?" "I am the last of the robillard line in savannah." "I know that." "O'haras, I mean." "Ohh!" "The peasants?" "Maybe some of pa's brothers are still alive." "Pa would like it if he knew" "I was looking up my long-lost kin." "Did you really hate pa as much as he said?" "When my youngest and most cherished daughter" "Wed herself to gerald o'hara," "There was no visible bottom" "To the pit of disastrous folly" "Into which she flung both herself" "And the honorable name of robillard." "I guess pa wasn't exaggerating." "May I ask who it was" "Witnessed this supposed indiscretion on scarlett's part?" "Supposed?" "She was seen entering the drummond hotel" "With a man she herself later admitted to my mother was ashley wilkes." "As for who saw them, my mother declined to say." "And did this nameless accuser" "Also peek through the keyhole?" "You don't have to take this too seriously, sally." "How do you know" "That what went on between scarlett and wilkes" "Is what you're thinking?" "That's a considerably naive idea" "Coming from someone of your experience." "Naive, hell." "It's fair." "Since when has scarlett ever deserved fair?" "The woman was forever inclined to rash behavior" "When in a state of mental distress." "You sure must've put her in one." "I believe scarlett's never entirely gotten over" "Her feelings for ashley wilkes" "And she decided to do something about that." "It would be decent of you to hear her side." "Do you know where she's gone?" "No." "I'll have to find out." "You are getting her side then?" "No." "I'm gonna divorce her." "I'll take one of those." "Yes, ma'am." "Hello." "Morning, ma'am." "And ain't it a fine one?" "It is." "I'd like to see mr." "O'hara." "You're seeing him." "How might I be of service?" "Actually, the mr." "O'hara I'm looking for would be more elderly." "Mr. Andrew o'hara or mr." "James o'hara." "Perhaps I've come to the wrong store." "You've come to the right one." "I'm their nephew, jamie o'hara at your service." "Oh, my goodness, then you're my cousin." "Am I indeed?" "Certainly one not known to me." "I'm katie scarlett," "Gerald's daughter from atlanta." "No doubt you don't know it," "But my mother passed on." "That was your auntie bridget." "God rest her dear soul." "Also uncle andy's wife as well, auntie una." "Ah, took the heart out of poor uncle andy." "Followed her within a month." "Uncle james, then, is he gone, too?" "He's not even thinking of going." "Fair chance he'll outlive the lot of us." "He'll be beside himself to see you, katie scarlett." "He's getting on in years," "But he's still able to pull his weight." "And how." "He's living with us now," "Me and my wife maureen and kids." "There's eight of them." "At least that was the count when I left this morning." "And here's that very house, be it ever so humble." "But we've all come from a lot worse, hmm?" "And no complaints now." "God rest his soul," "I always said your father was the best of the lot of us." "Have you not heard me say it, jamie?" "I have." "And often." "The runt of the litter he was," "But hard as nails..." "And o'hara to the smallest bone in his body." "A fine small man was gerald..." "Much as meself." "Ha ha ha." "I suppose you know" "How he come by that grand plantation of his, eh?" "Playing poker with my money, that's how." "And did I ever see a nickel of it back?" "I did not." "Did he ever happen to relate" "How he come to leave ireland, katie scarlett?" "I would guess upwards of about a hundred times." "Fled with a price on his head, he did." "One blow of his fist," "And down went that english landlord's rent agent," "Never to rise again in this world." "A father to make a woman proud, I should say." "And so I was..." "And am." "Here's to a dutiful and loving daughter, then." "May every man be blessed with one of her like, and five would be better." "And I'll add a welcome for cousin scarlett" "To our hearts and to our homes." "May she never be out of the one," "Nor long absent from the other." "I'm more touched than I can find words to say." "Well, they're lying about someplace." "I'm sure you'll find them." "Right." "Enough of the feasting." "Let's have some fiddling'." "Oh, goodness, scarlett!" "Are you all right, darlin'?" "Oh, get her a drink." "Oh, my dear." "Are you all right?" "You simply must let us summon a physician." "You're just being stubborn." "Stubborn." "I'm fine." "I just overdid it, that's all." "I'm recovering quite nicely without the aid of a doctor." "The best thing you could do for me" "Would be to stop standing there wringing your hands and just shoo." "If you feel the slightest further bit indisposed," "Call for, uh..." "Pansy!" "Yes, and she'd send for the doctor." "Shoo!" "Shoo!" "Shoo!" "Uh..." "Uh, scarlett..." "Shoo!" "Uh, y-yes." "You're still looking kind of purplish, miss scarlett." "Are you sure" "I'm not ill, pansy." "I'm..." "Indisposed." "It must be suppertime." "Go get your supper." "Can I bring you something up?" "Not right now." "Maybe later." "Go and have your supper." "My beautiful," "Enchanting, magical little..." "Indisposition." "You're just going to have to go on being" "The teeniest little bit of a fib for a while." "I know you don't mind," "Considering the good cause it's in." "The good cause being just the exact right time" "To introduce you to your daddy." "I don't know when the right time will be," "But I'll just have to content myself" "With imagining the expression" "On the handsome visage of mr." "Rhett butler" "When he finds out I'm giving him another sweet life..." "For the one we so tragically lost." "Oh, my darlin' little indisposition," "I pray you're a girl." "Please, please, be a girl." "Morning, boss." "Morning." "Hmm." "I'd say they're an improvement" "Over the last lot." "And right to say it." "There's 10 more coming from new york within the week." "And a thousand rounds." "That's all right, then." "Will I make the usual arrangements for the shipment?" "You will." "From the look of them," "I'd venture your hands haven't done kitchen work" "For quite some time, scarlett, if ever." "They've done far rougher things" "Than shell peas in their time, maureen." "Have they?" "You don't look it." "Are you rich, scarlett?" "Well, I guess you could say I'm pretty well off, yes." "So I says to jamie." "Carries herself rich, I says." "Not to mention stopping at the manse" "Of mr." "Pierre robillard, grand mucky-muck of savannah hoi polloi." "Shall I tell you how I got rich?" "I think I'd enjoy the telling." "Well..." "So I took the inheritance from my second husband" "If I'm late for lunch," "I must be in time for supper." "Colum!" "Ye devil!" "Not a word of warning." "I was hoping to catch you in the act." "Get away, you terrible man." "If I wasn't a priest," "Nothing would save you from my worldly attentions." "Blasphemer." "Now here's a surprise." "I'll bet me Sunday bonnet on that." "She's the landlord's daughter come for the rent." "Nothing of the kind." "She's scarlett o'hara butler," "Down from charleston to make the acquaintance of her savannah kin," "And long overdue it was." "Scarlett, say hello to father colum terence o'hara," "Here from ireland and another one of your cousins," "May god have mercy on you." "Pleasure to make your acquaintance, scarlett o'hara butler." "Well, bless me, father." "It's been a heck of a long time" "Since I've been to confession." "Happy birthday, father." "Happy birthday, grandfather." "Will you open your gifts in the drawing room, father?" "No." "Would you rather we brought them in here?" "I would not." "Where would you like to open your presents, grandfather?" "At a place of my choosing," "At a time of my choice," "And most certainly in private." "I suppose, after some considerable thought," "I might be able to imagine something sadder" "Than opening birthday presents alone," "But I doubt it." "Scarlett, good heavens." "I was hoping to enjoy your seeing what I got you." "Perhaps you will." "I mean me seeing you seeing it." "I know what you mean." "See what you've done?" "In absolute and certain knowledge" "That scarlett will not make her own apologies," "No matter how deeply owed," "May I beg your pardon" "In her stead, father?" "However much pauline and I may regret" "Having to return to charleston tomorrow, we can," "And certainly you may" "Take some modicum of comfort in knowing" "That scarlett will be returning with us." "I'll be staying." "I beg your pardon?" "I'll be staying on for a bit." "What are you saying?" "She says she'll be staying a while!" "Are you deaf?" "May one ask why, scarlett?" "I still haven't settled with the sisters of mercy" "About buying back careen's share of tara," "And I'm not leaving savannah till I do." "Besides, I'm just getting to know my o'hara relatives here," "And I'm in no hurry to stop knowing them so quick." "Well, if you remain in savannah," "Where will you stay?" "My o'hara kin would gladly have me stay with them," "But they don't have room for pansy," "And I can't get along without pansy," "Of course, I could go to a hotel." "There must be at least one decent accommodation in savannah." "Or I could just offer myself up" "To the good graces of grandfather robillard" "And hope he might provide shelter" "For the relatively brief time I'll be remaining." "Stay if you like." "It is a matter of supreme indifference to me." "See?" "I knew I'd be welcome." "Giddyup!" "Whoa." "Good morning." "Rhett!" "Well, good morning." "How are you this fine day, my dear?" "Quite fine this fine day, and yourself?" "I couldn't be better." "I see you've made the purchase of a new frock." "A frock?" "Why, no, it's" "There you go again, teasing me, rhett butler." "How might I make amends?" "I might find some forgiveness in my heart" "If you would offer me a ride to the library." "If it isn't too terribly bold of me to mention it," "I was sincerely sorry to hear" "Of the difficulties between you and mrs." "Butler." "Thank you." "As for boldness," "It happens to be a quality I admire in women." "That's very unusual." "In my experience," "Which of course has been quite limited," "I've observed that gentlemen are generally somewhat discomposed" "By any show of forthrightness in a lady." "I think gentlemen generally are." "I gather you don't count yourself in that company?" "In the company of gentlemen" "Or the company of gentlemen" "Discomposed by forthright ladies?" "Are you teasing me again?" "Why do you keep doing that?" "I seem unable to resist it, don't I?" "Maybe it's because of the charming, delightful manner" "With which you respond to it." "Daddy says you're something of a gambler." "I've played a hand of cards now and again." "Mother doesn't like daddy to gamble." "She says there's too much chance of losing." "If you don't chance the losing, you can't chance the winning." "Wish I could be that way sometimes." "What way?" "The way you said about gambling." "Sometimes I wish I could throw caution to the four winds," "Laugh at fate, let the chips fall where they may." "Maybe you will one day." "I can't imagine it." "Sometimes we need someone" "To help our imaginations along a bit." "Do you think so?" "I've often known that to be the case." "Always bearing in mind, of course," "That you risk the losing." "And chance the winning." "This is it." "What's the matter?" "Maybe I best wait outside." "Why?" "Being a baptist?" "Silly." "It's not a church." "It's a convent for nuns." "Even if it was a church," "You'd be perfectly free to go in." "Besides, they'd probably be delighted to get their hands on you." "The decision, of course," "Lies in the bishop's hands." "You can't accept my offer on your own?" "Out of the question." "I have to talk to the bishop now?" "Certainly not." "I'll present your suggestion to him on your behalf." "I wouldn't want to put you to all that trouble." "I'd be more than happy to speak to the bishop." "That would be impossible." "When will you talk to him?" "I have an appointment with bishop flynn three days hence." "Perhaps the opportunity will arise" "For me to convey your wishes to him." "He's irish?" "County meath, I believe." "Could you mention to him that my maiden name is o'hara?" "Just as a note" "Personal curiosity on my part, if I may?" "Go right ahead." "Should the bishop look favorably upon your request" "And agree to exchange our interest in tara" "For your generous donation to the sisters of mercy," "By my reckoning that still leaves" "The 1/3 share in the property" "Retained by your other sister." "Suellen." "Suellen, yes." "Which would effectively still deny you" "The full ownership you so passionately desire." "Your reckoning is right, sister." "I'll just have to think about that tomorrow." "Miss scarlett." "Oh, miss scarlett, wake up." "He wants to see you right this minute, he says." "What?" "Who wants me?" "Him." "What's the matter, grandfather?" "My breakfast is unsatisfactory." "You got me out of bed for that?" "I got you out of bed to do something about it." "What have I got to do with your breakfast?" "Send it back and tell them to bring what you want." "You tell them." "What am I, some kind of hired help?" "Order your own breakfast." "I'm going back to bed." "The bed to which you believe you are returning, young woman," "Belongs to me." "You occupy it only by my grace and favor." "Is that a threat?" "It is a pertinent observation." "Maybe I'll talk to your cook about her grits." "I wonder if you have noticed" "The portrait of your grandmother robillard" "In the drawing room." "I have." "She was a stunningly beautiful woman." "You favor her remarkably." "Why, thank you, grandfather." "Would that you might resemble her in other respects." "What other respects?" "She was a woman of consummate grace," "Of great gentleness and gentility." "I guess I wasn't in school" "The day they handed those out." "Still..." "I suppose there might be something to be said" "For..." "Spirit." "There's folks who think so." "I shouldn't wonder." "Grace, gentility and all that" "Those are easy things to take to." "I guess spirit takes some getting used to by some" "Before they can appreciate it." "You may be right." "What precisely is wrong" "With the grits?" "Where is your parish?" "I have no parish." "Who'd trust him with one?" "Only a fool or the devil." "Are you a missionary priest?" "Laboring to ease the suffering of the poor and bereft." "There's no one like him for it." "You must travel quite a bit." "Oh, wherever I'm called." "But I'm never long away from ireland." "Do you have any influence with bishop flynn" "Here in savannah?" "A hard man, the good bishop," "And not easily influenced." "Why do you ask?" "He turned me down" "About buying back careen's share of tara." "I mentioned me wanting to buy it." "Turned you down, has he?" "I can hardly keep from crying" "Every time I think about it." "It would have meant the world to me." "I wonder if the bishop" "Might be persuaded otherwise." "By who?" "Are you aware there's a cathedral" "Being erected here in savannah?" "No." "Is there?" "There is." "And the foreman of all the bricklayers" "Laboring on this magnificent structure" "Is a man called tommy shannon," "A good friend to yours truly" "And has been these many years." "He's also the husband to my sister pidge." "Tommy could be persuaded to let it be known" "In an indirect manner" "That a considerable slowdown in the progress of the work might occur" "Unless the bishop were to reconsider his unreasonable attitude." "That's blackmail." "Of course, if it doesn't sit well" "I didn't say it didn't sit well." "Family..." "It's a grand thing." "If I were your lawyer, rhett," "This document would never have been drawn up." "Why not?" "Why?" "It flies in the face" "Of every moral tenet that we hold dear to our hearts." "My lawyer did mention" "It was a somewhat unusual action for an individual to take." "Somewhat unusual?" "Heavens, rhett," "It is almost unheard of!" "Maybe it should be heard of more often." "Have you no respect whatsoever for the sanctity of marriage?" "I guess that'd depend on the marriage, henry." "I can think of three or four right now" "I'd say don't have much sanctity in them." "I'd have to add my own one to that number." "Have you informed scarlett of these intentions?" "I would have if I could." "I don't know where she is." "I wish with all my heart" "You would reconsider this drastic action." "It so violates everything we believe in." "I'd appreciate it if you'd forward those papers to your client" "With the utmost dispatch, henry." "Oh..." "Poor scarlett." "If there's one thing scarlett isn't," "It's poor." "You wanted to see me, grandfather?" "First I wish to thank you" "For your birthday gift to me." "You're welcome." "I'm glad it fits." "I apologize for losing my temper the other day" "And the result of that." "I am 94 years old." "You sure don't look it." "Don't carry your remorse" "To the extent of desperate flattery." "Then I take it back." "I have no reasonable expectation of living much longer." "I have a request to make to you." "It is my wish that you remain with me here" "For the duration of my life." "Remain with you?" "I don't understand, grandfather." "If you will remain in this house as a chatelaine," "Attend to my comforts," "Conform with my wishes," "I am prepared to designate you" "As my sole heir." "My estate, as you surely are aware," "Is not inconsiderable." "I'm a married woman, grandfather." "I expect I shall be able to tolerate your marital status." "I have responsibilities and obligations." "I can't just walk away from them." "And considering all those considerations," "I'm sure you'll understand that no matter how generous your offer" "Or however much I'm sincerely touched by it," "It would be out of the question for me to accept." "As yet you do not know how generous my offer is." "My estate is presently valued" "In excess of $500,000." "Half a million dollars?" "And you my sole heir." "I didn't think any one person had that much money." "You were mistaken." "Half a million dollars?" "I agree it is a sum that may bear certain repetition," "But we need not belabor the point, scarlett." "You'd give me all that money" "If I stayed on here till you passed on?" "Under the conditions of my needs and wishes." "Well, what is your answer?" "No." "My answer has to be no." "You refuse my proposal?" "I'm afraid I just have to." "How dare you!" "How dare you turn up your papist, peasant nose" "At the opportunity to become mistress" "Of this great house" "And attendant to its master!" "Even supposing I was able to tolerate" "Your intolerable manners" "Which I most definitely would not" "The fact that I can turn down your proposition" "With hardly a twinge of regret" "Is some indication to me" "That maybe I'm just beginning to think" "There might be more important things than money after all." "I hope you don't mind me saying this," "But I'm a bit confused." "I don't doubt that maureen is as well." "Here's a bill of divorcement" "From the husband you've told us" "Is dying for your return to his side in charleston." "There is a bit of confusion there." "I fibbed." "Oh." "Then that's clarified." "Then this document's more of a shock than a surprise." "No." "It's as much one as the other." "I never dreamed that" "I never imagined rhett would..." "What am I going to do?" "There now, love." "It's him that's committed the sin of divorce, not you." "And it's him who'll suffer the wrath of god for it." "I'm pregnant." "Glory be to god." "Is the man such a blackguard" "As to divorce the woman carrying his child?" "He doesn't know." "What are you saying, scarlett?" "We had a silly old quarrel." "We weren't on speaking terms." "I was waiting for the right time to tell him." "That'd be about now." "Never!" "Never, never, never!" "Divorce me?" "Divorce me, will he?" "There may come a day when he finds out I've borne him another child," "But it'll be over my wizened and lifeless body." "Your mind's in too much turmoil" "To be thinking clearly." "It's quite clear you won't be able to keep the truth from him" "Once your baby's come." "He could hear it from someone else." "Far better if it's from you." "If I'm far away," "There'll be nobody to tell him." "What's on your mind, scarlett?" "Far away where?" "When I was a girl," "My pa was forever going on about ireland." "Maybe it's time I saw what he was going on about." "You're for ireland, then?" "I'm for ireland." "It's the most breathtaking country I've ever laid eyes on," "Just like pa always described it." "We always thought he was gilding the truth a bit." "No need to gild it, is there?" "I never thought I'd ever see a place more beautiful than georgia." "Before the war, of course." "It's like another world altogether." "It's so..." "So ancient." "Nothing like ancient." "200 years maybe." "Fairly new." "I adore it." "I simply adore it." "Are we far from uncle daniel's house?" "Not far now." "Let me just go over it." "There's grandmother, katie scarlett, whose namesake I am." "Never, never did I imagine I'd meet her face-to-face." "There's uncle daniel, your pa," "And my pa's eldest brother," "And there's my cousin- don't tell me-timothy" "And his two sisters." "Jehoshaphat, how many cousins do I have?" "That's kathleen and, um, brigid." "Bridie." "Bridie." "Did I get them all?" "That's them all beneath that roof." "Will there be room for me beneath it, too?" "They'll see to that well enough." "It's your possessions I've some doubts about." "I guess I overdid it," "But I'll surely find a place of my own very soon." "My clothes and I won't be a bother to anyone, I promise." "I'm doubtful we'll be able to locate you a house" "To equal what you're accustomed to, scarlett." "That's all right." "This is a new life." "I've got it." "Come on, get up." "Go on." "Everything out." "Don't put that with the rest." "Come on, sean, hurry up." "Stand back." "There's a bit of trouble here." "I won't be long." "Let me see." "Stay in the coach." "Don't get out of it now." "Come on, everything out." "Get the table." "Move along, paddy, move along." "You, priest." "Back in your box and get on your way." "I'll just have a word with the woman, captain." "You wouldn't deny her a bit of comfort, would you?" "Don't fret." "Don't fret." "Please do something." "I'll send donnelly over for your things." "We'll find a place for you." "Stand clear there." "Put your backs into it, men!" "Come on, lads!" "Come on, boys, you're supposed to be knocking..." "Come on, harder!" "Harder!" "Move it!" "And again!" "Swing it!" "There she goes!" "Harder!" "Come on!" "Torch it!" "Stay in the coach, miss." "Colum, what in heaven's name is happening?" "They've destroyed that poor woman's house." "It's an eviction, scarlett." "She hasn't the rent money." "Why did they destroy it?" "So's no one will live in it." "I don't understand." "The owner's english." "The english own ireland." "You understand that, don't you?" "Sort of." "The owner doesn't want to rent it anymore." "He's doing what they call organizing his property." "First the rent is raised beyond the possibility of being paid." "Then the house is burnt down." "Then the land is set to grazing cattle." "That's where the profits are." "And that's ireland, too." "No beauty about it whatsoever." "I thought the driver's name was brendan." "I beg your pardon?" "When you introduced me to the driver, you called him brendan," "But that soldier called him paddy." "We're all paddies to the english, scarlett." "It's comparable to your despicable term "nigger."" "I never used that word in my life." "Pa would've flayed me raw." "I wasn't referring to you in particular." "I'm glad to hear it." "I must say, "paddy" doesn't sound all that bad," "Not as bad as that other." "You'd have to be irish." "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Glory, what was that?" "In far too much of a hurry to be irish." "That'd be one of them." "English?" "You're getting the lay of the land." "Whoa." "Milord." "Have you brung her?" "Hello, everybody." "Have you turned to stone," "Or are you going to give the girl the welcome" "She came halfway around the world for?" "Young katie scarlett o'hara." "You honor my house, and I bid you welcome." "You must be brigid." "Bridie." "You'll be stopping in my room." "And..." "Tim." "That's right." "Hello, tim." "I'll get your bags." "That's katie scarlett." "Gerald's girl, is it?" "Come at last." "And I've lived to see the day." "Glory be to god." "I got your note." "Evidently." "I came as soon as I could." "Soon enough." "Did you miss me?" "No doubt you've missed this." "Here." "Have a look." "That's disgusting." "Take it away." "Get undressed." "Would you like a cup of tea, scarlett?" "I'd love it." "Kathleen, I got the feeling" "My wardrobe might not be appropriate" "For living in ireland." "Your clothes are beautiful, scarlett," "But you might be right in their lack of fitness." "Would you like the lend of something of mine?" "Thank you, kathleen." "That's very generous of you," "But I think I better do some shopping." "We could go into town." "I can't today." "Colum's coming by." "Is he?" "Where are you off to, then?" "He wouldn't tell me." "Adventuring, he says." "Well, come on, then." "We'll find you something more fit for adventuring than that." "Are you going to tell me where we're going" "Before we get there?" "I am not." "If you weren't a priest and my cousin," "I could wheedle it out of you." "Wouldn't I enjoy the wheedling" "Were I not your cousin and a priest." "As for your priesthood," "I'll have to ask you to do something" "Which I guess will be difficult for you." "And what might that be?" "I have to tell a little fib" "And ask you not to tell anybody" "That's what it is." "A fib?" "A little white lie that won't hurt anybody." "I'm not asking you to tell it." "I'm asking you..." "I'm just asking you not to say anything." "Will I choke on these words I'm not to speak?" "I don't see why." "I don't want to be a divorced woman bearing a child." "How can you not be that" "If it's what you are?" "I can be a widow." "I'm going to tell people" "My husband recently passed on." "What'll be the point of that?" "I don't want to be a divorced woman" "Bearing the child of a husband that threw her over." "I simply cannot bear it." "Nor will you have to." "Hush now." "You won't tell?" "It'll be our secret." "Thank you, colum." "Thank you." "And there'll not be a man or woman" "That'll ever wheedle it out of me." "This is tara." "Tara?" "The first tara," "Whose memory your father brought with him to america." "You see that row of ancient stones over there?" "That's all we've left" "Of the great banqueting hall" "That was tara 10 centuries ago." "Here's where the o'haras sung first, scarlett." "And the monaghans, the mahoneys," "O'gormans, o'briens," "The donahues, the carmodys," "The heroes." "All the heroes." "This was tara." "I feel so..." "Strange, colum." "It does that to some." "What is it?" "Time." "What are you up to?" "Just something silly, I guess." "If only pa could know where I just stood." "He does, of course." "I wish I could believe that." "Give it time." "What's this place?" "Ballyhara." "All this land round is known as ballyhara." "200 years ago, it was our people's land." "O'hara land." "That's the big house of ballyhara." "Does no one live in it?" "No one lives there." "No one will." "What do you mean?" "Why?" "There's a dark history on it." "Tell me." "You've had enough folklore for one day, darlin'." "We don't want to overdo it, do we?" "That's very sad." "We had no idea." "You have our deepest condolences, dear scarlett." "Thank you." "What a tragedy." "The husband passed on whose child you're carrying." "It would appear I wasn't meant for marriage." "All my husbands have died." "All?" "You've been to the altar more than once?" "Three times, as a matter of fact." "And lost them, every one." "Glory be to god, it's like a curse." "As like as makes no difference." "My first two husbands were nothing like rhett." "Not to speak ill of the dead," "But darling rhett..." "What a man he was." "He could make a girl dizzy just thinking about him." "My other two husbands were fine and decent men," "But 10 of 'em couldn't have made 1 rhett butler." "There's bashing a tin pot," "And then there's music." "I believe being divorced by her husband" "Would be one of the most devastating things" "That could happen to a woman." "It depends on the woman." "As to scarlett, she can do with being devastated." "Is it unseemly of me to speak about it?" "If it is, I'll" "Not a bit." "Everyone else is." "Heavens, I can't bite my tongue any longer." "I just can't." "It was me." "I beg your pardon, my dear?" "Who saw her." "Scarlett in the hotel." "I saw scarlett with the man I now know is ashley wilkes." "I saw them." "I was the one who told." "You don't say." "I've been driven to distraction" "Thinking that's the reason you were divorcing her." "Because I told that I saw scarlett." "Scarlett and I have been at loggerheads" "For some considerable time now, anne." "You don't hate me, then?" "I could fully understand if you did," "Although it would break my heart." "Oh, slow down, honey." "I appreciate you mentioning it." "I've spent years with a woman" "Whose concept of the truth was severely lackadaisical." "I find you a real refreshing change." "You do?" "Really?" "You bet." "I feel like a great big hunk of solid rock" "Has been lifted off my back." "I'm quite pleased to relieve you of it." "Still and all, weren't you just perfectly furious" "When you heard about scarlett?" "Scarlett hasn't always played by the rules, anne," "But then, neither have I." "But she's a woman." "She certainly is." "I've thought about what you were saying this afternoon." "What did I say?" "About rules." "Playing by the rules." "In regard to scarlett." "Uh-huh." "Well, I got the impression" "Maybe I'm mistaken, I could be totally mistaken" "But I got the impression you were suggesting" "A woman has the same sort of prerogatives to take as a man" "By way of behaving." "Long as she can be sensible about it." "About what?" "Whatever comes of her claiming the prerogative." "Like what you were saying about gambling" "And chancing losing?" "And winning." "And winning." "Yes." "A woman like that's particularly attractive" "To a certain kind of man." "She is?" "What do you think about that?" "About what?" "About taking your prerogative" "And the risks that come with it." "I guess I don't know how I feel about it." "I don't know that I've got a prerogative to take." "Sure, you do." "I do?" "No question about you having it." "Only a question about you taking it." "Hello there." "Hello." "What are you doing?" "Doing?" "I'm looking around." "You're not irish." "I'm american." "From the southern portion" "Of that troubled land, I take it." "Georgia." "Ah." "You're among the vanquished" "In the recent unpleasantness between the states." "We lost the war, mister." "Nobody vanquished us." "I mean no offense, mrs..." "Butler." "My full name" "And the one I prefer to go by is scarlett o'hara butler." "I'm getting a crick in my neck looking at you." "In america, a gentleman dismounts when addressing a lady." "He also generally introduces himself" "Unless he has some nefarious reason not to do so." "Fenton." "Fenton what?" "Actually, I'm the earl of fenton." "That's some magnificent piece of horseflesh" "You're riding there, earl." "You know something of horses, do you?" "More than something." "This isn't mine." "It belongs to my uncle." "I'll be getting myself a proper horse real soon." "Yes." "I should say that might be advisable." "This land once belonged to my family, the o'haras." "You don't say." "Maybe some of it will again." "And how might that come about?" "It's called ballyhara." "Yes, I know." "Do you happen to know who owns it?" "As a matter of fact, I do." "Why do you ask?" "Just curious." "How much land goes with it?" "1,200 acres." "That's a nice piece of property." "It's a wreck of a place." "Have you been inside?" "I was just looking for a way in." "Follow me." "Must've been a grand house" "Before it was left to go to wrack and ruin." "Do you know anything of the history of ballyhara?" "I get the impression something unpleasant happened," "But I don't know what." "It was built by an englishman, of course." "The house passed from generation to generation" "Until the time of the famine." "Are you familiar with the famine here in ireland?" "My pa told us all about it." "The then lord of ballyhara" "Was unable, it seems," "To bear the horrors of starvation and death." "He bought a ship" "To provide free passage to america for his tenants," "Their families," "Anyone who cared to take advantage" "Of his pity and largess." "Many did." "The exact number was never known," "Surely in the hundreds," "But they all drowned when the ship went down" "In the first heavy sea encountered." "Oh, my lord." "Not long after," "The lord of ballyhara was found in the stable," "Bound hand and foot and hung from a rafter." "The act, of course," "Of a handful of demented paddies bound on revenge." "Of course, there was retribution for the murder." "Five men from the village" "Were chosen at random and hanged." "Hanged?" "By who?" "By the legal representatives" "Of the british crown, of course." "That was all 30 years ago." "The house hasn't been occupied since." "The local witchery has it, inevitably," "That the house is haunted." "Well, considering that story," "If any place had a right to be haunted," "I guess it would be ballyhara." "And should we have a chance to meet again after today," "Don't you dare use the word paddy in my presence again." "Have I encountered a fenian heart" "In an american breast, then?" "A what?" "The word's unfamiliar to you?" "Fenian?" "The fenian brotherhood," "A secret irish society" "Dedicated to the violent and bloody overthrow" "Of british rule in ireland," "Knowing full well the mayhem inherent in that hopeless wish." "I don't want anything to do with politics." "That's very wise of you." "Ghosts or no ghosts," "I'd still like to speak to the owner." "You are." "The man who was hanged was my father." "May I offer you some lunch, mrs." "Butler?" "We aren't far from fenton hall." "The way it looks now reminds me of our homes" "After the yankees passed through," "Except the state ballyhara's in" "Is the result of nothing more than neglect." "Anyone can see what a beautiful place" "It must have been once." "I know how you feel about the english," "But they sure know how to build houses." "What's this I hear about it being haunted?" "Has anyone actually seen a ghost at ballyhara?" "Now I know what's different about supper tonight" "I'm the only one talking." "What's going on?" "Something happened?" "Did somebody die?" "Are we going to sit here like lumps" "Or will we have it out?" "You're known to have been consorting" "With the master of fenton hall today, scarlett." "Consorting?" "What's that supposed to mean, consorting?" "I met him by accident at ballyhara," "And he invited me home for lunch." "How did you know about it?" "Scarlett, there's nothing happens here" "That the whole county doesn't know about" "By the fall of dark." "Best to keep it in mind for future referral." "Now, look here." "I'm real fond of all of you," "And I have the greatest respect" "For your feelings about the english." "But I have a slight objection" "About being told who I can talk to." "And right she is." "Miss scarlett's got nothing to do with our troubles." "Can she be among us" "And have nothing to do with 'em?" "It's her decision to make." "Stop talking about me as though I were somewhere else." "But you're not somewhere else, darlin'," "And that's the point of it." "I don't care about politics." "Politics!" "Is it politics you call it, woman?" "Father!" "Nothing was e'er heard any the better for shouting." "Yes, that's what I call it." "I've seen what it can do." "From fort sumter to the terrible day" "General lee handed over his sword" "At appomattox courthouse." "And millions dead between." "And ruination and despair." "I've had my bellyful," "And I'll have no more!" "I'm sorry for shouting." "Call it politics if that's your need, scarlett," "But what we're about here is human suffering." "After the hanging and the murders," "Fenton's mother took him and his sister away" "To live in England." "That's still his real home place." "But five years or so ago," "He bought fenton hall, as he came to call it." "He passes a fair bit of time there." "I get the impression he's not well liked." "No more or less than the rest of 'em," "But you shouldn't encourage an association with him." "God's nightgown!" "You, too?" "I'm not encouraging anything with him." "All's well, then." "Home, sweet home..." "Should you choose to call it that." "There's a sleeping chamber there." "It could do with a few more sticks of furniture." "Will it do, do you think?" "It'll do just fine, colum." "Now, where can I buy a good horse and a trap?" "Whoa." "Evening." "You're getting what?" "It's my duty to marry her, belle." "Jumping jones!" "You're gonna tell me" "You got that girl in the family way?" "Of course not." "Then what do you mean, it's your duty?" "I told you." "I compromised her." "You didn't force yourself on her, did you?" "You know better than to ask that." "I sure do, and I apologize." "Is she ragging on you" "To make an honest woman of her?" "Maybe she's making an honest man of me." "Oh, rhett..." "Gonna be terrible for your reputation" "If that ever gets around." "Terrible." "They're all just adorable, mrs." "Scanlon." "This one especially." "When's the baby coming?" "November." "Ladies?" "Good morning, father." "Colum." "Is she buying out the shop?" "Just baby stuff thus far, but I'm still hoping." "I'm only pulling your leg." "I should hope so" "After what I bought for myself not two weeks ago." "No one could complain of your costume, mrs." "Butler." "I can't decide." "I'll take them all." "And there's the proof of it." "Come on." "I need your help." "Good morning, ma'am." "How much will you take for ballyhara?" "Are you quite serious?" "Let's find out." "Have you heard?" "Have you heard?" "Heard what?" "It's..." "Ballyhara!" "Have you heard?" "The o'hara woman has just made purchase of ballyhara" "And a thousand acres with it!" "Have you been doing your drinking elsewhere today?" "O'brien must've been talking to the little people again." "But it's the truth!" "I've had it from the lips of father colum himself!" "Would you call him a liar?" "If you're pulling our legs," "We'll hang you from the rafters by both of yours." "May I be struck dead" "If I'm not telling the truth." "I believe he is." "And there's plenty of work" "For every man jack as wants it," "Putting it back to its former state." "And farms to be had" "At rents that'll never rise!" "That's her promise." "Well, here's to scarlett o'hara, then." "God bless her rare soul" "Who's took back what was took from us" "And made it irish once more!" "Yay!" "Yay!" "Yay!" "Now's as good a time as any." "Consider the risk in trusting her." "Where's the risk, man?" "Do you supposed she'll go running to the barracks" "Hollering sedition?" "There's no chance of that." "She might turn us down." "What do you think, colum?" "I think the risk's more hers than ours." "How do you figure that?" "Were she to be discovered helping us..." "She'd know that risk." "It's for her to decide." "I say now's the time." "Are you having relations with the o'hara woman?" "Don't be impertinent." "I was only wondering." "You're not here to wonder." "There's some whispering it about" "As to you and her." "Be quiet." "I want to go now." "Not yet." "No!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Come on, move it." "We're doing it!" "What are you doing?" "What's going on here?" "Scarlett, we're being evicted!" "Evicted?" "What the devil for?" "Where's uncle daniel and tim?" "Someone's gone to get them." "I needn't inquire as to your identity." "I presume you're the american woman." "You presume right." "What are you doing to these people?" "I'm executing an order" "On behalf of her majesty's government" "For the eviction of persons resident on this property" "For their having fallen in arrears on the rent." "Now, stand aside, please, miss." "Are you in arrears, kathleen?" "God help us, we are, scarlett." "How much?" "I beg your pardon?" "It's their pardon you should be begging." "How much in arrears are they?" "Constable?" "7 pounds, 8 shillings, 9 pence." "Well, do you want it, or don't you?" "I don't have 9 pence." "You can keep the change." "By his glory be to god," "But doesn't she just take the cake?" "I'll pay you back every penny." "I swear it on my father's grave." "Why didn't you tell me you needed money?" "I'd have helped you." "I'll not take charity, scarlett." "It's family, uncle daniel." "There's no charity in family." "Nevertheless, every penny." "All right, then." "Maybe we can make some kind of an arrangement." "What would that be?" "Will you come farm a piece of my land?" "The rent will be better," "Not only for you." "For anyone who comes as tenant at ballyhara." "Put the difference between your rent here" "And the rent there toward paying me back." "It's fine land up there." "It's o'hara land." "Every penny, mind." "And a bit more." "I didn't have the exact change." "Daniel, coming up." "I got that one." "There she goes." "Ready?" "Hurry up." "Want some lunch?" "I just come by" "To tell you I'll be away for a while." "Away?" "Where?" "America." "Boston, philadelphia." "Don't be gone too long." "Only as long as is needed." "It's coming along." "Not fast enough." "Fast is a word" "You'll find mysteriously absent" "From the irish vocabulary, darlin'." "You'll be needing help running a house the size of this." "I've taken the liberty of arranging that for you." "Rosaleen fitzpatrick's her name." "Formerly head housekeeper on an estate by trim, near laracor." "I'm much obliged, colum." "I hadn't thought of that." "I'll have her drop by at your convenience." "I have other news as well." "I've had a letter from savannah from tommy shannon," "The works foreman on the new cathedral being built there." "It concerns your tara." "It's about time." "What's the news?" "Faced with a retarded pace of work on the cathedral," "As was hinted as a possibility by tommy," "The bishop reconsidered your proposal" "To buy back your sister's share of tara" "And will enter into negotiations on a fair price." "Hallelujah." "Won't all this alter your plans somewhat?" "How?" "You seem to be amassing" "A considerable amount of property." "Colum, what we're standing on" "Was here a million years ago." "How can anyone have too much of anything that lasts that long?" "Never thought of it quite like that," "But I don't know of any but you who would." "You'll be needing considerable staff, of course." "I don't know about considerable." "Just someone to run the place," "And I'm assuming that'll be you, mrs." "Fitzpatrick." "I'll only be using a few rooms at first." "When'll the child be coming?" "I judge October or thereabouts." "That's what I'm figuring on - around late October." "They've got to finish up" "Enough for me to move in before then." "Why is that?" "I want my baby to be born here." "You'll be needing a steward" "To manage the butler, the footmen, and the like," "And a head stableman to supervise the grooms." "How many horses have you in mind to have?" "I haven't gotten around to thinking about horses yet." "I'm late in expressing my pleasure" "At meeting you and being in your employ." "It would be an honor to be housekeeper for the o'hara." "Beg your pardon?" "I say I'll be honored being housekeeper for the o'hara." "The o'hara?" "What do you mean?" "Are you not aware, then?" "You're called the o'hara now," "Head of the family o'hara and all its branches." "A rare grace it is, you being a woman." "Hasn't been a female borne the title" "In over 100 years or more." "Ye gods!" "What do I have to do?" "Some will come to you" "With various troubles now and again." "There'll be the odd squabble amongst families" "That might be needing your attention." "There may be occasional intercessions with the landlord" "Asked of you." "Nothing that you're not equal to," "From what I've heard of you thus far." "Well, I'll do my best," "But what I'd be equal to right now is lunch." "Let's drop into the pub." "Well, now..." "Women are rare enough in carney's, mrs." "Butler," "And never unescorted." "But I'm the o'hara." "Afternoon." "Here's to ya!" "God bless the o'hara!" "You hurt me." "Get dressed." "Are you done with me for this evening," "Lord fenton, sir?" "Get dressed." "You hurt me." "God bless all here." "Colum." "Whoa." "Colum." "You're back." "How are you?" "Welcome." "I missed you so." "So how was boston?" "And philadelphia, was it?" "Quite civilized, I'm pleased to report." "You sure travel far afield to save souls." "If this little creature was kicking me like that from the outset," "I'd be black and blue." "Poor lamb." "How much longer?" "About three weeks, I reckon." "Will you have your wish as to the birthplace?" "I will." "The whole house isn't finished yet," "But enough so's I'll have my baby 'neath ballyhara's roof." "Be sure to stay beneath it the night of allhallows eve." "Why?" "What's that?" "The same as your Halloween," "Though we take it more seriously than you do." "It's coming a week Saturday." "Stay in your house with your doors shut tight." "That's when all the goblins and ghosts" "And spirits from all the times come out," "Some carrying their heads beneath their arms" "And all other unnatural things." "Colum." "Oh, well." "Perhaps you're not quite irish enough yet." "There's some plaster needed on the walls," "But with a good fire in the hearth and cheerful curtains," "The room will afford quite reasonable comfort." "And there's a surprise for you." "We found it in the attic." "Sweet mercy, what is it?" "It's a state bed," "Probably made specially for the viceroy's visit years ago." "Who's that?" "The head of the government in ireland." "I've ordered a comfy mattress." "I could sleep in this" "And never hit the same spot twice." "The bed wants more than one in it." "Mrs. Fitzpatrick, whatever are you suggesting?" "Ooh!" "I trust there's been no signs of ghosts as yet." "Not yet." "They're probably waiting till I get settled in" "Before they make their presence known." "Do you believe in ghosts?" "I don't believe in them, but I'm scared of them." "Have you a preference?" "I'm hoping for a girl." "It would appear you haven't long to wait before you know." "It's banging on the gates, all right." "It must be quite difficult," "Widowed and bearing a child." "I would've preferred it otherwise." "I would've been by sooner," "But I'm just back from dublin." "It's a beautiful city." "You must see it." "I have every intention of seeing it." "Perhaps I can be your guide and escort." "You might care to meet some fashionable people," "I dare say, even the viceroy." "Does it sound appealing?" "I have to admit it does." "I could benefit from some relief" "From all the muck I've been slogging through of late." "But there's somebody else I've got to meet first, though." "Of course." "In due time." "In due time, I just might." "I'll take your horse, father." "Throw another log on the fire." "Colum, what are you doing out on a night like this?" "I was halfway here when the storm broke." "It was easier to keep coming." "Who but a priest would venture out on allhallows eve?" "You're in time for supper." "I was hoping I might be." "This came in the adamstown post for you today." "I'm expecting something from my lawyer in atlanta." "This isn't it, though." "It's from an aunt in charleston." "Would you lay another place for colum?" "I'll just go make myself more presentable." "Oh, god." "The baby." "Ohh!" "Mrs. Fitzpatrick!" "Mrs. Fitz!" "It's coming!" "It's coming!" "I'll get the doctor." "He's too far, and there isn't the time." "Something's not natural." "There's blood." "I can't vouch for myself to do it, colum." "I'll fetch someone who will." "Nobody will venture out on allhallows eve." "Perhaps I'll get someone to come under special protection." "Go on, now!" "Hyah!" "Whoa!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "No!" "Aah!" "It'll be all right, darlin', shush." "Shush, darlin'." "No!" "Shush, shush, shush." "No!" "It'll be all right." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "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." "Colum terence o'hara..." "Our father, who art in heaven..." "Hallowed be thy name." "Thy kingdom come," "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." "Give us this day our daily bread" "And forgive us our trespasses," "As we forgive those who trespass against us." "And lead us not into temptation," "But deliver us from evil." "Amen." "Mother mary, help me!" "Thanks for coming along." "I only wish I could do more for you, dearest." "I'm becoming quite concerned for you," "If truth be told." "How so?" "In regard to your rather severe state of distress." "Colum meant a whole lot to me," "More than I even knew, I guess." "That's quite apparent." "He must have been rather a fine fellow" "To have so taken your heart." "I..." "I wish I might have known him." "You wouldn't say that" "If you knew he was a fenian." "You don't say." "A priest." "Remarkable." "Folks believe that's why he got killed." "The english found out about him" "And killed him." "The soldiers." "I wonder if it might not be beneficial" "For you to get away from here, scarlett" "From ireland." "Get away?" "Absent yourself" "From the geography of your grief, as it were." "I think it might do you the world of good." "Where would I go?" "Well, there's no question at all about that." "There isn't?" "England, of course." "Go on!" "Out of the way!" "There's the high mucky-muck lord fenton" "Away for a bit." "No regrets on the part of any here present." "Away where?" "England, where he belongs." "It's rumored that herself will be trailing soon after." "Mrs. Butler?" "Aye." "Can you reckon it?" "The woman must be daft." "It's been said about town" "That you're going to England." "Just a little getaway trip." "London." "They say london's a rough place, like." "I think I'll be staying out of the rough parts." "You'll never forgive me the cheek of it." "Of what, mary?" "Of what I've come to ask of you." "Would you take me with you?" "Take you?" "What do you mean?" "To England." "I'd work for the expense of it." "I'd take care of the baby, do chores." "Why would you want to go to England, mary?" "I cannot remain in ireland." "What do you mean?" "Why not, honey?" "God forgive me" "For the low, disgusting creature I am." "I'm with child!" "There, there." "It's all right, now." "It's all right." "Come on." "Does the father know?" "It's no matter whether he knows or not!" "I beg you, mrs." "Butler." "Take me away." "I'll work for the cost of it," "I swear on the head of your darlin' baby." "Who is the father?" "Jesus, mary, and joseph!" "Is there not shame enough in me condition" "Without putting a name to its cause?" "I beg you not to ask, mrs." "Butler." "I beg o' ye!" "Just calm down now." "Just calm down." "I cannot remain in ireland." "I daren't." "You do understand that, don't you?" "Is he a married man?" "Is that it?" "Yes, that's it." "He's a married man." "Supposing I did take you with me." "I'll be coming back." "You'd have to stay there," "At least until after" "What will you tell your parents?" "Oh, that will be all right." "I've thought it through." "I'd write them..." "And say I'd come" "To have a fondness for England," "That I'd decided to stay on." "And then after the" "I'd come home when I was able." "I've thought it through." "I beg you, ma'am." "Please take me with you." "Ha ha ha!" "Come on, come on!" "How long has he been feeling poorly, iris?" "Couple of days now," "And getting sicker, it seems." "Eleanor!" "Rhett told me you were here." "Sally." "How good to see you." "Rhett, iris has just been telling me" "Her rupert isn't at all well." "Been hurt?" "No, sir, mr." "Rhett." "He just bad off sick." "I think it's the fever." "How are you, fella?" "I've been better, mr." "Rhett." "Sure have." "Yeah." "I'd say you are fairly warmish, rupert." "The yellow fever, mr." "Rhett?" "Jesus, don't let it be." "I'll have a doctor have a look at you." "Meantime, keep him as cool as you can." "Well, we got 10 or a dozen cases in charleston." "There's that couple over at mrs." "Brewton's place." "Might be one at the mortons'." "Now this one." "I don't have to tell you, it ain't looking good." "We haven't had a yellow fever outbreak" "In four years, dr." "Fixe." "We got one now." "All we can do is hope it stays contained." "Whoa." "Number 3 pembroke terrace, mum." "Isn't it grand-looking, though?" "Nothing's too good for the irish." "Lord fenton." "Mrs. Butler is expecting me." "Yes, milord." "And I thought dublin was big." "From the look of london so far," "You could tuck dublin away" "In a corner of it." "I bought a little book" "About the places to see." "I marked some off." "Now how far is westminster abbey?" "Come in." "Tea, madam." "The baby's ready." "Thank you, mary." "Richard, this is mary boyle." "I brought her with me." "Mary, this is lord fenton." "How do you do, sir?" "Hello there." "How did you come" "To bring this girl with you to london?" "Mary?" "I'm helping her out." "Indeed?" "She's a big help with the baby," "And I'd have had to engage someone here anyhow." "And how are you helping her?" "She's got herself into quite a pickle," "As a matter of fact." "She didn't get into it all by herself, though." "She's gonna have a baby." "It's a darn shame." "I feel so bad for her." "Your samaritan inclination" "Appear to be flourishing, scarlett." "She was desperate." "She'll be a whole lot more desperate" "Before it's all done," "But I don't think she knows that yet." "I'll always love you, rhett." "And I you, my dearest." "This isn't the end of loving, is it?" "Never." "Will you forgive me?" "For what?" "There's nothing to forgive." "For not giving you our baby." "I feel so bad about that." "Hush, now." "If there could have been a bit more time," "I could have given you our baby." "Our baby will be with you." "I'll know that." "I'll take good care of it, I swear." "I know you will, dearest." "I know." "Kiss me now, rhett." "Kiss me, my lovely love." "I'll inform mrs." "Butler that you're here, milord." "Thank you, roberts." "Would you mind waiting in the drawing room?" "What's your game?" "I don't know what you mean." "Yes, you do." "Why are you here?" "Mrs. Butler offered me a helping hand" "In me trouble, god bless her." "How very convenient for you." "It was that." "And at what juncture is it your intention" "To disclose to her the origin of your..." "Trouble?" "If by that you mean" "Me bringing you into it," "I have no such intentions." "What exactly are your intentions?" "The best I can manage," "Lacking the wherewithal to get to america," "Which you denied me." "Aah!" "Get out of this house, you little slut." "I'll be that soon enough." "Sooner!" "Do you understand me?" "Do you?" "The understanding is for you to be doing." "I'll take the advantages" "As has been given to me by your shameless trollop," "And there's no one will say me nay." "Obviously she is unaware" "Of your true feelings, you deceitful little whore." "Deceit is it?" "There's the pot calling the kettle black." "Get out of my sight." "Aye." "I'll do that quick enough," "Seeing that to take meself from your sight" "Will remove you from mine," "And I'll welcome the benefit of that!" "Mother, may I introduce mrs." "Butler?" "How do you do?" "A pleasure to meet you, ma'am." "And my sister victoria." "Hello." "How do you do?" "You could hardly be expected to know," "But only the queen is addressed as ma'am." "Well, I'm not too used to the customs here." "Many of which are quite tiresome." "That would of course be a matter of opinion, mrs." "Butler." "Call me scarlett." "Excuse us." "Her name's scarlett, apparently." "I don't know the family." "Pleasant." "It is extremely tasty." "My son tells me" "You're to be the new mistress of ballyhara house," "Mrs. Butler." "Yes, I am, lady fenton, and delighted to be." "I understand you've restored it" "To something approaching its former splendor." "I don't know about that." "It's splendid enough for me." "I expect you're quite at home" "In ireland, mrs." "Butler," "In view of the fact" "That you are of irish extraction." "I love ireland, yes." "I'm afraid I can't share your feelings about that." "It was ireland that killed my husband, you see." "I don't believe I do." "Father was murdered by the irish." "Haven't you told her, richard?" "I don't know it could be rightly said" "Ireland killed him, lady fenton." "If my husband had not concerned himself" "With the welfare of that rabble," "He would be alive today." "I should warn you, mother," "That such characterizations of the irish" "Might cause some offense to mrs." "Butler." "I hardly think I need warnings from you, richard." "As for my feelings," "One can share them or not, as one likes." "It cannot be gainsaid," "They are a curious race, the irish." "Curious?" "How?" "Why, in virtually every aspect" "Of their existence, my dear lady." "Altogether, an almost primitive society." "If they had their way," "They wouldn't even speak english." "Maybe because that's not their language." "And we're forced to contend" "With the fanatical element amongst them." "I suppose you'd mean the fenians." "Murderous cutthroats." "My cousin was a fenian." "He was a priest." "He was most dear to my heart." "The english murdered him." "Really, scarlett, there is absolutely no evidence" "To substantiate that allegation, now is there?" "What an interesting name you have, mrs." "Butler," "If I may say so." "Scarlett." "So very unusual." "Quite unique." "Presumably one foresaw" "There could only be one scarlett o'hara." "May one inquire how you came" "To possess your unusual name?" "My pa." "It was my father's idea." "It's an irish family name." "My grandmother's name is katie scarlett." "The scarletts fought with the irish volunteers" "Alongside the o'haras" "At the battle of the boyne." "My father thought it'd be an appropriate name" "For a baby girl." "Why, how frightfully clever." "I should say your father had a quite..." "Singular turn of mind." "Well, we're a curious race." "You are a source of constant astonishment, scarlett." "Why is that?" "Surely you must realize" "That never in all my experience" "Have I been served champagne by a beautiful woman," "Or anyone else, for that matter," "Whilst standing in a kitchen." "Have a seat, then." "The kitchen's my favorite room in the house." "When we were little," "My sisters and I spent much of the time" "In the kitchen at tara." "I'll bet you've never been in a kitchen." "I believe you may be right." "Will we be lingering long?" "Probably not." "I'm sort of tired." "Then by all means..." "You should retire with all due haste." "I guess I'll be sending you off" "To your own bed first." "Oh?" "Sometimes a lady just isn't of a mind." "Of a mind?" "Don't be offended, richard." "I'm just not in the mood." "I assure you..." "I shall provide mood enough" "For both of us, darling." "That hurts." "Come along, now." "Be your customary inflammatory self." "I mean it, richard." "I'll see you to the door." "I'm not accustomed to sudden onsets of chastity, scarlett." "Chastity and I parted company" "A good long time ago." "You're hurting me again." "I think I'll just let you" "See yourself out, lord fenton." "I say." "Mrs. O'hara, isn't it?" "Hello." "John morland." "Dunsany, county meath." "Of course." "How delightful to see you again, sir john." "The pleasure is mine." "Are you in london on a visit?" "Just passing through, yes." "This is mary boyle from ballyhara." "She's stopping with me on a visit, too." "With her baby." "How do you do, mrs." "Boyle?" "A pleasure, sir." "I got a letter from mr." "Butler." "He seems pleased with the horse he got at the drogheda fair." "Perhaps you're in touch with him." "Actually, no." "Well, I must be running along." "I'm sure you'll enjoy the play." "They say it's charming." "I'm sure I will." "Mrs. Boyle." "Oh, never mind." "Just ignore the whole thing." "Good morning, alice." "Good morning, mum." "The post's come." "I've brung it for you." "Will there be anything else, mum?" "No, thank you, alice." "Sally!" "Oh, dear lord." "Rhett." "Is that all the faster that horse of yours can run?" "Do you have one of those to spare?" "Thought you took the pledge." "That was just for anne." "Did you come here to mock me and my horse," "Or got some higher purpose?" "I came by to see" "If you've grown a beard, lots of hair," "Like a hermit, instead of acting like one." "I guess I haven't been too sociable of late." "Well, the world's still out there, honey." "Lots of life still going on, despite your absence." "It'll keep." "Question is, will you?" "How about giving me a ride back to the house?" "Only if you offer some spirituous libation upon our arrival." "Come on!" "Hyah!" "You wrote scarlett." "How'd you know?" "She wrote me." "Letter came a few days ago." "It was a nice letter." "I can't imagine her writing any other kind." "Sounds as though she's liking England." "I was in England a short while back," "Right after the war." "I liked it." "Well, you know what they say." "Remind me." "Travel broadens the mind." "Did it broaden yours?" "Well, there's those who'd say not a bit." "Look here, rhett butler," "I said it before, there's a world out there." "It ain't flat, and it don't end" "At the dunmore landing fence line." "Get yourself away from here," "Where everywhere you look hollers out what's not there anymore" "And never will be." "If I were to go away," "Who'd you have to holler at?" "Don't you worry about that." "I'd locate someone else real quick." "Just close your eyes, grit your teeth," "And jump the fence, damn it." "Hell, it ain't even high." "You must be joking." "Nope." "Not going to be keeping company with me any longer?" "Are you" "I've made up my mind." "Perhaps together, we might be able to unmake it." "No, I feel real definite about it." "I'm not accustomed to being discarded like an old shoe, scarlett." "You've no cause to feel like that." "I should decide what I've cause to feel." "Don't make it something it's not." "I don't want to go on with it anymore." "I'm being a lady about it." "Be a gentleman." "A lady?" "You?" "How very amusing." "I'd appreciate it if you'd leave now." "I'm asking you nicely." "I so much prefer your not-so-nice aspect." "You've seen the last of that." "You really think so?" "I sure do." "Mightn't we at the very least enjoy," "Maybe delight in, an appropriate farewell?" "That's what I'm making right now." "Goodbye, richard." "But you haven't delighted me yet, darling," "Nor I you." "Now you're being coarse." "I don't recall you ever voicing any complaints in that regard." "No more than did your sweet, pretty irish colleen." "I'll start hollering if you don't let go." "You aren't listening, darling." "Listen." "Perhaps the only thing worse than being made a fool of," "Is discovering it to be so, don't you agree?" "I don't know what you mean." "Of course you don't." "Shall I tell you?" "It must surely be time you knew what I meant." "You're scaring me now." "I want you to go." "I want you to leave me alone." "Please, leave me alone." "All in good time." "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Now, what was it we were discussing?" "Farewells." "Ah, yes, farewells." "You might ask mary boyle how I bade her farewell." "Oh, so terribly fond it was." "I might even say memorably fond." "I'm confusing you, aren't I, dearest scarlett?" "Yes, of course I am." "I promised a moment ago to enlighten you, didn't I?" "A promise broken is a promise owed." "The child she carries is mine, you piteous fool." "Aah!" "You filthy, disgusting, son of a bitch!" "I could kill you as soon as look at you!" "If you ever come within reaching distance of me again," "I'll kill you!" "Get away!" "Get away!" "Get away from me!" "As for your dearly departed cousin," "The good father colum," "The poor chap would be alive today" "Had he not the fatal temerity to meddle in my affairs." "What?" "What about colum?" "Why, the silly fellow" "Threatened to expose my liaison with dearest mary to you." "I couldn't have that, now, could I?" "Certainly not." "What choice did I have?" "Please, don't say you killed colum." "If you like." "Mum's the word, then." "Aah!" "Aah!" "No!" "No!" "Aah!" "No!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "No!" "If you don't get out of this house," "I'll call the police." "Ha ha." "Fancy the consequences of that for you, my darling." "I guess there's worse by way of consequences in this life." "Get out." "Get out!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "Aah!" "No!" "Aah!" "No!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "And you only learned" "The truth of this girl's child" "On the night of lord fenton's death." "Yes, that very night." "You hadn't the slightest suspicion before that time?" "None." "Mary will tell you if you can find her." "What I want to know is if you can find her." "It's only fair to tell you" "That in a city as vast as london" "Or any other, for that matter," "It will be almost impossible." "We can only hope that she'll come forward and make herself known." "Even if she did, she wouldn't necessarily confess, would she?" "Assuming that there's anything that she might confess." "Now, look here, mr." "Randolph..." "I'm not accusing mary of anything." "And the last thing I want to think" "Is that she murdered someone." "But it's real hard not to draw conclusions" "From the way things are" "I'm arrested, and mary disappears." "That's fair speculation." "When you learned that lord fenton" "Was the father of this girl's child," "How did you feel about that?" "I could've chewed nails is what I felt." "What woman wouldn't have felt that way?" "There's women would've shot him on the spot!" "Lord fenton murder!" "Front story!" "Get your paper here!" "Lord fenton gruesome murder trial!" "All the details!" "Thank you." "Good morning." "Lord fenton's grisly murder!" "All the details in the paper!" "Is there anything I can get you, honey?" "Rhett says you haven't eaten anything in two days." "They're probably cooking up my last meal right this minute." "Don't talk like that." "I ought to have known better than to come to England." "I guess that's a whole pitcher of spilled milk, isn't it?" "¶ I wish I was in dixie ¶" "¶ hooray, hooray ¶" "¶ in dixie- ¶" "Fenton murder!" "Read all..." "Scarlett..." "Is there anything..." "Come back to you a-about that night?" "No." "What's it matter, anyhow?" "You think they'll believe me" "And call the whole thing off?" "Where do they have it, do you think?" "Have what?" "The gallows." "I've never seen a gallows." "Have you?" "Is it outside?" "Have you seen it?" "No." "And you're never gonna, either." "Oh, sally, I'm scared." "I'm so scared." "Hush." "Ohhh..." "Hush." "Be upstanding in court!" "Put up scarlett o'hara butler." "The jurors for our lady the queen" "Present that you, scarlett o'hara butler," "On the 10th day of November" "In the year of our lord 1876" "Did feloniously, willfully," "And of your malice aforethought" "Kill and murder one richard, lord fenton of albemarle." "How say you," "Are you guilty or not guilty?" "Not guilty." "Now..." "During your observation" "Of the body of lord fenton," "Did you determine for yourself" "Any probable cause of death, inspector wilcox?" "I observed three wounds" "I reckoned was caused by a sharp instrument" "To the chest of the deceased" "In the general area of the heart" "Sufficient to cause death, I'd say fairly quick." "Was there any evidence" "Of this sharp instrument in the room?" "It was lying right next to the bed." "No question it was the weapon that done the deed." "Why not?" "It was covered with blood." "Are you going to have scarlett testify, john?" "I haven't yet made that decision." "Shouldn't she have a chance to tell her side of the story?" "Yes, but then she'll be questioned by the prosecution," "A not altogether felicitous prospect, should scarlett" "Good lord!" "What is it?" "It's the girl!" "The-the boyle girl." "Miss boyle!" "Miss boyle!" "Stop!" "Here!" "Mary!" "Stop!" "Miss boyle!" "Hey!" "Watch out!" "Oh!" "Mary!" "Mary, wait!" "Mary!" "It's all right!" "No!" "It's all right." "I just want to talk to you." "Calm down." "No one's going to hurt you." "My name's rhett butler." "I was married to scarlett." "You're lying!" "Mr. Butler's dead!" "Everybody knows it!" "I may be somewhat tuckered, honey, but I ain't dead yet." "Mrs. Butler's a widow!" "You're lying!" "I need your help." "Scarlett needs your help." "She needs it real bad." "There's no help I can be to her!" "Why'd you run away from scarlett's house, mary?" "Now, why'd you do that?" "You know scarlett's on trial for killing lord fenton?" "Do you believe she's capable of that?" "I don't believe so." "We know someone else did it." "We just don't know who." "But unless that person makes it known," "There's a good chance scarlett's going to be convicted of this crime." "She could hang." "Where are you taking me?" "To see scarlett." "No." "No!" "Stop!" "Whoa!" "Mary!" "Mary!" "Mary, don't!" "Aah!" "Is she alive?" "Just." "I understand you're the gentleman" "She has to thank for it." "I need to talk to her." "She's not conscious yet." "Are you a relative?" "No, a friend." "It's real important I speak to her." "Can you give her something to revive her?" "She has had rather a drubbing, you know?" "You might pop around tomorrow." "Can you give us her name?" "It's boyle." "Mary boyle." "How soon can I speak to her?" "Drop by tomorrow." "I'd get home and out of those wet clothes, if I were you," "Before you require some hospital treatment as well." "Good night." "I think it might be best" "Not to mention this episode to scarlett yet." "Let's not get her hopes up prematurely." "It may come to nothing." "Cheer up, old boy." "We're not throwing in the towel quite yet." "Did there come a time, mrs." "Boswell," "When you began to believe" "That the prisoner's relationship with lord fenton" "Was, uh, other than merely platonic?" "Other than what?" "Did you come to believe" "That their association was of an intimate nature?" "Oh, yes, I did that." "Can you tell us why?" "After I seen him coming out of her bedroom" "In the dead of night," "Though he didn't know I seen him." "On how many occasions did you observe such a circumstance?" "That circumstance was just the once." "But I know there was numerous others." "No further questions, milord." "No questions, milord." "You may step down." "Call your next witness, mr." "Whitlock." "Call mr." "Rhett butler." "Call mr." "Rhett butler!" "So." "Now, your former wife" "Never told you that she was carrying your child" "And that she ultimately gave birth to this child." "No." "Why did she not inform you" "Of so momentous an event in a man's life?" "She was angry with me." "For what reason?" "I decided it was time we parted company." "She sure didn't agree." "So she denied you knowledge" "Of the very existence of your only child" "Because you had left her?" "Looks that way." "Mr. Butler..." "Wouldn't you call that" "A rather extreme and irrational response" "For a woman-a wife- to have" "As a result of a fit of pique?" "I do think this calls for a judgment" "Which the witness is in no way qualified to render." "Quite right." "Mr. Butler," "Is it true that the prisoner" "Consistently and over a considerable period of time" "Represented to all and sundry" "That you were deceased and that she was a widow?" "Yes." "She lied?" "yes." "Well, in order to dispel any, uh," "Shall we say, curiosity" "In the minds of anyone here present today," "Is there any question whatsoever in your mind, mr." "Butler," "That you are indeed the father of mrs." "Butler's child?" "None whatsoever, sir." "Uhh..." "Ah, here she is, back with us." "Good evening." "Where am I, then?" "In bruton hospital, my dear." "Not where you intended, thank god." "Oh, dear jesus." "I've not died?" "No." "It's quite a miracle, in fact..." "Assuming you deliberately took a header" "Into the thames." "You did, didn't you, you naughty girl?" "Am I bad hurt?" "Remarkably little, in fact." "But..." "I'm sorry to have to tell you" "It was impossible to save your baby." "Oh." "The baby's gone?" "I'm afraid so." "Oh, mother of mercy, be praised." "I don't see why they had to put you up there, anyhow." "I was fit to be tied" "When john told me they were going to do that." "What better witness to reflect on your character, scarlett?" "Meaning my bad character?" "They're trying to hang you." "And all's fair in love and hanging, huh?" "Do you think I've got a bad character?" "I think you've got a bad habit" "Of making decisions today" "Without thinking about what they might bring about tomorrow." "The only thing that keeps me going" "Is knowing that if worse comes to worse," "Our baby will have you to take care of her." "I got something to tell you, scarlett." "It's about mary boyle." "What about her?" "Hello, mary." "They tell me you're making an amazing recovery." "I was glad to hear it." "I was doing a lot of beating about the bush" "The other night 'cause I didn't want to scare you..." "But you know what I was getting at, don't you?" "All things considered, there ain't a lot of doubt in anybody's mind" "About who did in this lowdown fenton fella." "In fact, I'd say there's no doubt at all." "Question is, what are you going to do about it?" "What are you going to do about it, mary?" "Things are looking real bad for scarlett." "Folks around here are just itching to string her up." "She's gonna be hung for something she didn't do." "I find it hard to believe that any decent person..." "A decent, god-fearing girl like you" "Could just..." "Stand by and let that happen." "From what scarlett tells me about you," "I find that real hard to believe." "Damn." "Lady victoria, did your brother ever have occasion" "To discuss with you his association with the prisoner?" "Yes." "On one of these occasions, did he make mention" "Of an incident in her past" "Which she'd revealed to him?" "Yes." "Hmm." "Could you tell us, please, the nature of that incident?" "I object, milord." "This evidence is hearsay." "She murdered a man." "She shot him." "I had to defend myself against his unspeakable intentions!" "It wasn't a murder!" "She's twisting it all around!" "Silence!" "Silence!" "Silence in court!" "Gone?" "What do you mean, gone?" "No one was at fault." "I assure you, there was no reason whatsoever" "To suppose that the girl would" "Gone?" "And then we began to hear the shouting," "Mostly mrs." "Butler's." "You couldn't help but hear" "They were having a most dreadful row." "She hurried up the stairs." "Lord fenton had come out of the drawing room." "Did she speak to him at that time?" "She stopped and shouted at him." "Well, what did she shout, if you remember?" "I..." "Couldn't forget." "She said, "if ever you come near me again, I'll kill you." "I swear I will."" "Those were her words." "Now, when you reached the open bedroom door," "What did you observe, mr." "Roberts?" "Mrs. Butler was standing by the bed," "At-at the bedside, and lord fenton was on the bed." "There was blood all over him." "Was there anything else" "Which you were able to observe, mr." "Roberts?" "Yes, sir." "I saw the knife covered in blood." "I swear by almighty god" "That the evidence given by me" "To this court shall be the truth," "The whole truth, and nothing but the truth," "So help me god." "In view of testimony heard earlier, mrs." "Butler," "Did you, in fact, reveal to lord fenton that you had once" "Shot and killed a man" "An enemy soldier?" "I told lord fenton that in confidence." "I didn't expect him to talk to anybody else about it." "What were the circumstances" "Of that unfortunate incident?" "He was gonna assault me." "Assault you?" "In what manner?" "In the worst manner a woman can be assaulted." "What was your response" "To lord fenton's refusal to leave your house" "Following his atrocious assault on your person?" "I was extremely angry." "Angry enough to retaliate?" "I retaliated as best I could." "I hit him, as I said." "Angry enough to kill him?" "No." "No." "Mrs. Butler..." "Despite your lapse of memory on that evening" "To which you have testified," "Do you believe yourself capable" "Of having murdered lord fenton?" "No." "I swear on my mother's grave" "I'm not capable of having done that." "At which point you say you fired the pistol" "At this enemy soldier, causing his death." "Yes." "Were there any witnesses" "To this violent episode, mrs." "Butler?" "No, I don't think so." "Actually, I don't recall." "Ah, you don't recall." "It was a long time ago." "To be sure." "I suggest that the evening of lord fenton's death" "Is not remotely so distant in time," "And yet you claim a failure of memory" "On that occasion as well," "Uh, between the moment" "When you were allegedly struck by lord fenton" "And the moment you allegedly discovered him to be dead." "That was different." "I hit my head when I fell." "I already said that." "Ah, so you did." "Uh, tell me, uh, mrs." "Butler," "Are these, uh, lapses in memory" "Habitual episodes to which you are susceptible?" "Not as far as I know." "I take it you're uncertain." "No, I'm not uncertain." "I suggest the statement" ""not as far as I know"" "Suggests a degree of uncertainty, mrs." "Butler." "You're just trying to twist me up." "I can't explain what I mean." "Much as you are unable to explain" "The death of lord fenton in your bedchamber, mrs." "Butler." "If you forget something, how can you know you forgot it?" "And by that very admission," "How can you dare claim with any certainty whatsoever" "That while in this state of- what shall we call it" "Uh, convenient amnesia, you did not commit the crime" "Of which you are accused?" "I know it in my heart." "Alas, mrs." "Butler, we are none of us here qualified" "To, uh, evaluate the reliability of your heart..." "And most certainly not the innocence you claim for it." "You have already confessed here in this court" "Openly to murder." "The yankee was gonna rape me!" "I had to protect myself!" "There were plenty of women in those days didn't protect themselves," "And they paid the consequences." "They paid dearly." "What I did then has nothing to do with now." "I did threaten lord fenton, yes." "But I didn't do what I threatened." "He did commit his vile assault on me." "He raped me..." "And all I did was hit him," "And he struck me, and the next thing I remember" "Was waking up and finding him dead," "But I'm not the one who killed him!" "I suggest..." "That it was your hand and no other" "Which took up a knife on that tragic night" "And struck not once but thrice" "Into the heart of richard, lord fenton of albemarle!" "I didn't!" "I didn't, I didn't!" "I didn't!" "You haven't had the slightest recollection, scarlett?" "No." "I'm trying to remember." "I've been trying, but I can't!" "I can't remember what happened!" "It's all right." "Calm yourself." "You don't really believe me, do you?" "You don't think I'm innocent." "You want me to remember I did it, don't you?" "Certainly not." "Well, I can't!" "I can't remember what happened!" "Have you agreed upon a verdict, gentlemen?" "We have." "Do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty" "Of the murder of lord fenton of albemarle?" "Guilty." "Scarlett o'hara butler," "You have been found guilty of willful murder." "Have you anything to say" "Why the court should not pronounce sentence upon you?" "I'm not guilty!" "I didn't do it!" "I'm innocent!" "I swear I am!" "Prisoner at the bar..." "The jury has convicted you" "Of the dreadful crime laid to your charge." "The sentence of the law is" "That you be taken from hence" "To the place from whence you came" "And from there to a place of execution" "And there you be hanged by the neck until you are dead." "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "No!" "She's not the one done it!" "She's not the one!" "I believe I must've gone mad for a bit." "It just come on me all of a sudden like." "Aah!" "I done it for all the evil that was in him." "I done it for all the evil." "I want to thank you again, mary," "For coming out with it." "In the end, I couldn't do other." "Will they hang me, do you think?" "We'll try to stop that from happening, honey." "You'll have the best lawyers in town." "Sir john's going to stand for you." "I have no money to pay." "Don't worry about that." "And I'll be back to testify for you." "You're leaving this terrible city, then?" "I don't blame you." "Are you going back to ireland?" "Back to ireland, yes." "And my husband's coming with me." "It's time I made the acquaintance of my daughter." "Whoa." "Welcome to ballyhara." "What do you think?" "I'd say your tastes have improved considerably, scarlett." "You might be surprised at some of my improvements." "Come and meet your daughter." "She'll be sleeping." "She's even more beautiful asleep than she is awake," "And that's saying something." "Mama." "Say hello to your daddy, darlin'." "I don't have a daddy." "Well, you do now." "Here's mud in your eye, scarlett." "Coming from you, I'm not altogether sure how to take that." "Say something less suspicious." "To our daughter..." "The most..." "Beautiful little girl in the world." "Here's hoping she has her mother's brass" "And her father's brains." "That's a lot better." "You've been more decent to me" "Than I had any right to expect, rhett." "I hope you know I'm fully aware of that." "I wouldn't have blamed you" "If you'd never spoken to me again" "After you found out about cat." "I considered it." "We've got to figure out what to do now, don't we?" "Yes." "About our daughter." "Yes." "What'll we do?" "I don't know about you, scarlett," "But I'm going to get me some sleep." "Could I trouble you to point me to a bedroom?" "Uh-uh, scarlett." "Not a chance." "It's not what you're thinking." "You're being a donkey's hind end." "See what I mean?" "Now, what in god's name is that?" "I'd say it's the world's biggest bed, I guess." "You wouldn't know a little bitty thing like me was even in it." "You'd have to holler to even talk to me," "Which I have utterly no expectation of you doing." "I promise to be good." "You asleep?" "No." "You going to sleep?" "Yes." "Night." "Good night." "How are you liking ireland so far, sir?" "You just call me rhett." "It's a fine country, bridle." "It is bridle, isn't it?" "It is." "There's loads of us to know, isn't there?" "But you'll sort it out in time." "What a fortunate man you are, sir," "To have an angel for a daughter" "And a saint for a wife." "You could've knocked me down with a feather" "When we heard the news of mary boyle." "'tis a tragedy." "None to blame but herself, however." "True enough." "Scarlett was saying she and himself" "Would go over to England" "To give the girl whatever assistance they can." "Bless her heart." "Ain't he criminal handsome, though?" "He is that." "Looks to be plenty life left in him yet." "I suppose scarlett will know best about that." ""save you, o'donald," ""said the wise gray beggarman." ""and you, likewise, said o'donald." ""a wind's coming, and what is your craft?" ""I come from the outermost shores of the earth" ""from the glens where the white swans glide" ""at night and I lay..." ""at night and then..." "And at night on a cold, cold hillside."" "What are we going to do, rhett..." "About you and me?" "About her?" "About you and me and her?" "She ought to have both of us." "That's generally the best way." "The only way it'd be is if you could ever..." "Ever what?" "Love me again." "Pass the cream." "What makes you think I ever stopped?" "How about you divorcing me and marrying somebody else?" "That might've put the idea in my mind." "It was never a question for me of loving you, scarlett." "It was a question of living with loving you." "Maybe I could make that part easier." "I'd sure like to try." "How about you?" "Would you like to try, maybe?" "Maybe, if we took it real slow and easy." "Don't go doing me any big favors, rhett butler." "You may think you're god's gift to women," "But I'm not exactly over the hill yet." "Plenty of men" "You once said" "Heaven help the man who really loves me." "Do you remember?" "Heaven help me." "Well?" "Lord, how I've missed you." "You tell me the truth." "You really love me with your whole heart," "Or did you want me because you couldn't have me?" "Why, rhett butler!" "What a nasty thing to say." "I do love you..." "With all my heart..." "And I will forever." "I'd say we've been real nice to each other lately." "Wouldn't you say so?" "I'd agree." "It's a downright pleasure to agree." "You've changed, scarlett." "You think so?" "Mm-hmm." "You've grown up." "I'll have to get to know you all over again." "That might not be an altogether unpleasant experience." "I have no doubt you'll make it interesting." "Better than interesting." "I'll do better this time, I promise." "You'll probably wear me out." "I'm sure you'll manage just fine." "Hmm." "What're we going to do about our little difficulty?" "Which one?" "The geography one." "You in charleston, me in ireland." "You have any thoughts about that?" "Only one that makes any sense." "I'm listening." "Compromise." "In my experience," "Every time somebody suggests what they call a compromise," "It generally turns out to be something favoring them." "Not this time." "All right, let's hear it." "I'll give up charleston" "If you'll give up ireland." "For where else?" "We belong together, scarlett." "The world is where we belong." "All of it." "We can go anywhere." "As long as we're together," "The world will belong to us." "That's a lot of property." "Ha ha ha ha!"