Gone with the Wind Page #3

SCARLETT:

Charles Hamilton, I want to eat barbecue with you.

And mind you don't go philandering with any other

girl because I'm mighty jealous.

CHARLES HAMILTON

I won't, Miss O'Hara. I couldn't!

SCARLETT:

I do declare, Frank Kelly, you don't look dashing

with that new set of whiskers.

FRANK:

Oh, thank you, thank you, Miss Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

You know Charles Hamilton and Ray Kelvert asked me to

eat barbecue with them, but I told them I couldn't

because I'd promised you.

INDIA:

You needn't be so amused, look at her. She's after

your beau now.

FRANK:

Oh, that's mighty flattering of you, Miss Scarlett.

I'll see what I can do, Miss Scarlett.

KATHLEEN:

What's your sister so mad about, Scarlett, you

sparking her beau?

SCARLETT:

As if I couldn't get a better beau than that old maid

in britches. Brent and Stew, do talk, you handsome

old thing, you...oh, no, you're not, I don't mean to

say that I'm mad at you.

BRENT:

Why Scarlett honey...

SCARLETT:

You haven't been near me all day and I wore this old

dress just because I thought you liked it. I was

counting on eating barbecue with you two.

BRENT:

Well, you are, Scarlett...

STEW:

Of course you are, honey.

SCARLETT:

Oh, I never can make up my mind which of you two's

handsomer. I was awake all last night trying to

figure it out. Kathleen, who's that?

KATHLEEN:

Who?

SCARLETT:

That man looking at us and smiling. A nasty dog.

KATHLEEN:

My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's

from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.

SCARLETT:

He looks as if, as if he knows what I looked like

without my shimmy.

KATHLEEN:

How? But my dear, he isn't received. He's had to

spend most of his time up North because his folks in

Charleston won't even speak to him. He was expelled

from West Point, he's so fast. And then there's that

business about that girl he wouldn't marry...

SCARLETT:

Tell, tell...

KATHLEEN:

Well, he took her out in a buggy riding in the late

afternoon without a chaperone and then, and then he

refused to marry her!

SCARLETT:

(whisper)...

KATHLEEN:

No, but she was ruined just the same.

(Ashley and Melanie, on the balcony open to the

garden.)

MELANIE:

Ashley..

ASHLEY:

Happy?

MELANIE:

So happy.

ASHLEY:

You seem to belong here. As if it had all been

imagined for you.

MELANIE:

I like to feel that I belong to the things you love.

ASHLEY:

You love Twelve Oaks as I do.

MELANIE:

Yes, Ashley. I love it as, as more than a house. It's

a whole world that wants only to be graceful and

beautiful.

ASHLEY:

And so unaware that it may not last, forever.

MELANIE:

You're afraid of what may happen when the war conies,

aren't you? Well, we don't have to be afraid. For us.

No war can come into our world Ashley. Whatever

comes, I'll love you, just as I do now. Until I die.

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