Gone with the Wind

Chapter 1 Scarlett's Jealousy

(Tara is the beautiful homeland of Scarlett, who is

now talking with the twins, Brent and Stew, at the

door step.)

BRENT:

What do we care if we were expelled from college,

Scarlett. The war is going to start any day now so we

would have left college anyhow.

STEW:

Oh, isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those poor

Yankees actually want a war?

BRENT:

We'll show 'em.

SCARLETT:

Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk is

spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I

get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't

going to be any war.

BRENT:

Not going to be any war?

STEW:

Ah, buddy, of course there's going to be a war.

SCARLETT:

If either of you boys says "war" just once again,

I'll go in the house and slam the door.

BRENT:

But Scarlett honey..

STEW:

Don't you want us to have a war?

BRENT:

Wait a minute, Scarlett...

STEW:

We'll talk about this...

BRENT:

No please, we'll do anything you say...

SCARLETT:

Well-

but remember I warned you.

BRENT:

I've got an idea. We'll talk about the barbecue the

Wilkes are giving over at Twelve Oaks tomorrow.

STEW:

That's a good idea. You're eating barbecue with us,

aren't you, Scarlett?

SCARLETT:

Well, I hadn't thought about that yet, I'll...I'll

think about that tomorrow.

STEW:

And we want all your waltzes, there's first Brent,

then me, then Brent, then me again, then Saul.

Promise?

SCARLETT:

I just love to.

STEW:

Yahoo!

SCARLETT:

If only ..if only I didn't have every one of them

taken already.

BRENT:

Honey, you can't do that to us.

STEW:

How about if we tell you a secret?

SCARLETT:

Secret? Who by?

BRENT:

Well, you know Miss Melanie Hamilton, from Atlanta?

STEW:

Ashley Wilkes' cousin? Well she's visiting the Wilkes

at Twelve Oaks.

SCARLETT:

Melanie Hamilton, that goody-goody. Who wants no

secret about her.

BRENT:

Well, anyway we heard...

STEW:

That is, they say..

BRENT:

Ashley Wilkes is going to marry her.

STEW:

You know the Wilkes always marry their cousins. BRENT

Now do we get those waltzes?

SCARLETT:

Of course.

BRENT:

Yahoo!

SCARLETT:

It can't be true...Ashley loves me.

STEW:

Scarlett!

(Scarlett couldn't accept the fact of Ashley's

marriage, she rushes to find her father. Mr. O'Hara

is just back from a ride.)

Mr. O'HARA

(To his horse) There's none in the county can touch

you, and none in the state.

SCARLETT:

Paw? How proud of yourself you are!

Mr. O'HARA

Well, it is Scarlett O'Hara. So, you've been spying

on me. And like your sister Sue Ellen, you'll be

telling your mother on me, that I was jumping again.

SCARLETT:

Oh, Paw, you know I'm no 'tattle like Sue Ellen. But

it does seem to me that after you broke your knee

last year jumping that same fence......

Mr. O'HARA

I'll not have me own daughter telling me what I shall

jump and not jump. It's my own neck, so it is.

SCARLETT:

All right Paw, you jump what you please. How are they

all over at Twelve Oaks?

Mr. O'HARA

The Wilkes? Oh, what you expect, with the barbecue

tomorrow and talking, nothing but war...

SCARLETT:

Oh bother the war....was there, was there anyone else

there?

Mr. O'HARA

Oh, their cousin Melanie Hamilton from Atlanta. And

her brother Charles. SCARLETT

Melanie Hamilton. She's a pale-faced mealy-mouthed

ninny and I hate her.

Mr. O'HARA

Ashley Wilkes doesn't think so.

SCARLETT:

Ashley Wilkes couldn't like anyone like her.

Mr. O'HARA

What's your interest in Ashley and Miss Melanie?

SCARLETT:

It's...it's nothing. Let's go into the house, Paw.

Mr. O'HARA

Has he been trifling with you? Has he asked you to

marry him?

SCARLETT:

No.

Mr. O'HARA

No, nor will he. I have it in strictest confidence

from John Wilkes this afternoon, Ashley is going to

marry Miss Melanie. It'll be announced tomorrow night

at the ball.

SCARLETT:

I don't believe it!

Mr. O'HARA

Here, here what are you after? Scarlett! What are you

about? Have you been making a spectacle of yourself

running about after a man who's not in love with you?

When you might have any of the bucks in the county?

SCARLETT:

I haven't been running after him, it's...it's just a

surprise that's all.

Mr. O'HARA

Now, don't be jerking your chin at me. If Ashley

wanted to marry you, it would be with misgivings, I'd

say yes. I want my girl to be happy. You'd not be

happy with him.

SCARLETT:

I would, I would.

Mr. O'HARA

What difference does it make whom you marry? So long

as he's a Southerner and thinks like you.

And when I'm gone, I leave Tara to you.

SCARLETT:

I don't want Tara, plantations don't mean anything

when...

Mr. O'HARA

Do you mean to toll me Katie Scarlett O'Hara that

Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why,

land is the only thing in the world worth working

for. Worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because

it's the only thing that lasts.

SCARLETT:

Oh, Paw, you talk like an Irishman.

Mr. O'HARA

It's proud I am that I'm Irish. And don't you be

forgetting, Missy, that you're half-Irish too. And to

anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them, why the

land they live on is like their mother. Oh, but

there, there, now, you're just a child. It'll come to

you, this love of the land. There's no getting away

from it if you're Irish.

(Next day, the O'Haras drive to Twelve Oaks for the

barbeque there.)

Mr. O'HARA

Well, John Wilkes. It's a grand day you'll be having

for the barbecue.

JOHN WILKES:

So it seems, Gerald. Why isn't Mrs. O'Hara with you?

Mr. O'HARA

She's after settling accounts with the overseer, but

she'll be along for the ball tonight.

INDIA:

Welcome to Twelve Oaks, Mr. O'Hara.

Mr. O'HARA

Thank you kindly, India. Your daughter is getting

prettier everyday, John.

JOHN WILKES:

Oh, India, here are the O'Hara girls, we must greet

them.

INDIA:

Can't stand that Scarlett. If you'd see the way she

throws herself at Ashley.

JOHN WILKES:

Now, now, that's your brother's business. You must

remember your duties as hostess. Good morning, girls!

You look lovely. Good morning, Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

India Wilkes. What a lovely dress. I just can't take

my eyes off it.

(Scarlett enters the hall with her family.)

MAN1

Good morning, Miss Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

Morning.

MAN2

Look mighty fine this morning, Miss Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

Thank you.

MANS:

Morning Miss Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

Good Morning.

MAN4

Pleasure to see you, Miss Scarlett.

MANS:

Howdy, Miss Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

Ashley!

ASHLEY:

Scarlett! My dear!

SCARLETT:

I've been looking for you everywhere. I've got

something I must tell you. Can't we go some place

where it's quiet?

ASHLEY:

Yes I'd like to, but... I've something to tell you,

too. Something I...I hope you'll be glad to hear. Now

come and say hello to my cousin, Melanie Wilkes.

SCARLETT:

Oh, do we have to?

ASHLEY:

She's been looking forward to seeing you again.

Melanie! Here's Scarlett.

MELANIE:

Scarlett. I'm so glad to see you again.

SCARLETT:

Melanie Hamilton, what a surprise to run into you

here. I hope you're going to stay with us a few days

at least.

MELANIE:

I hope I shall stay long enough for us to become real

friends, Scarlett. I do so want us to be.

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