Gone with the Wind Page #10

(Downstairs.)

MAMMIE:

She says she's coming. I don't know why she's coming,

but she's a-coming.

RHETT:

You don't like me Mammie. Now don't you argue with

me, you don't, you really don't like me.

(Scarlett comes down, and shows Rhett into the

living room.)

RHETT:

It's no good Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

what?

RHETT:

The cologne.

SCARLETT:

I'm sure I don't know what you mean.

RHETT:

I mean you've been drinking. Brandy. Quite a lot.

SCARLETT:

Well, what if I had? Is that any of your affair?

RHETT:

Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out.

And it ruins reputation. What is it? This is more

than losing old Frank.

SCARLETT:

Oh, Rhett. I am so afraid.

RHETT:

I don't believe it. You've never been afraid in your

life.

SCARLETT:

I'm afraid now. I'm afraid of dying, of going to

Hell.

RHETT:

You look pretty healthy. And maybe there isn't any

Hell.

SCARLETT:

Oh, there is. I know there is. I was raised on it.

RHETT:

Well, far be it for me to question the teachings of

childhood. Tell me what you've done that Hell yawns

before you.

SCARLETT:

I ought never to have married Frank to begin with. He

was Sue Ellen's beau and he loved her not me. And I

made him miserable. And I killed him. Yes, I did,

I'd killed him. Oh, Rhett. For the first time, I'm

finding out what it is to feel sorry for something

I've done.

RHETT:

Here, dry your eyes. If you had it to do all over

again, you'd do it no differently. You're like the

thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole but he's

terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail.

SCARLETT:

I'm glad ma is dead. I'm glad she's dead so she can't

see me. I always wanted to be like her, calm and kind

and...and suddenly I've turned out disappointing.

RHETT:

You know what, Scarlett? I think you're on the verge

of a crying jag. So I'll change the subject and say

what I came to say.

SCARLETT:

Say it, then get out! What is it?

RHETT:

That I can't go on any longer without you.

SCARLETT:

Oh, you really are the most ill-bred man to come here

at a time like this...

RHETT:

I made up my mind you were the only woman for me,

Scarlett, the first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks. Now

that you've got your lumber mill and Frank's money,

you won't come to me as you did at the jail. So I see

I shall have to marry you.

SCARLETT:

I never heard of such bad taste.

RHETT:

Would you be more convinced if I fell to my knees?

SCARLETT:

Turn me loose, you varlet and get out of here.

RHETT:

Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of

my sentiments, my dear Scarlett, I mean my dear Mrs.

Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that

for some time past, the friendship I have felt for

you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more

beautiful, more pure, more sacred... dare I name it?

Can it be love?

SCARLETT:

Get up off your knees, I don't like your common

jokes.

RHETT:

This is an honorable proposal of marriage, made in

what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go

all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

SCARLETT:

You're coarse and you're conceited. And I think this

conversation's gone far enough. Besides, I shall

never marry again.

RHETT:

Oh yes, you will. And you'll marry me.

SCARLETT:

You...you? I don't love you. And I don't like being

married.

RHETT:

Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?

RHETT:

Oh yes, you will. And you'll marry me.

SCARLETT:

You...you? I don't love you. And I don't like being

married.

RHETT:

Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?

SCARLETT:

Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean.

Hush, do you want them to hear you outside?

RHETT:

You've been married to a boy and an old man. Why not

try a husband at the right age? With a way with

women?

SCARLETT:

You're a fool, Rhett Butler. When you know I shall

always love another man.

RHETT:

Stop it. You hear me Scarlett, stop it. No more of

that talk.

SCARLETT:

Rhett don't, I shall faint.

RHETT:

And I want you to faint. This is what you were meant

for. None of the fools you've ever known have kissed

you like this, have they? Your Charles or your Frank

or your stupid Ashley. Say you're going to marry me.

Say yes. Say yes.

SCARLETT:

Yes.

RHETT:

Are you sure you meant it? You don't want to take it

back?

SCARLETT:

No.

Chapter 10 Scarlett and Rhett

(Rhett and Scarlett spent a most-expected honeymoon

in New Orlean. And one year after, their first child

is born.)

RHETT:

She's a beautiful baby The most beautiful baby

ever...yes... do you know that this is your birthday?

That you're a week old today? Yes...I'm going to buy

her a pony

the likes of which this town has never seen. Yes, I'm

going to send you to the best schools in

Charleston...yes, and I'll be received by the best

families in the South. And when it comes time for her

to marry, well, she'll be a little princess.

SCARLETT:

Certainly you are making a fool of yourself.

RHETT:

Why shouldn't I? She's the first person who's ever

completely belonged to me.

SCARLETT:

Great balls of fire. I had the baby, didn't I?

(Knock at the door.)

MELANIE:

It's Melanie, may I come in?

SCARLETT:

Come in, Mellie.

RHETT:

Yes, come in and look at my daughter's beautiful blue

eyes.

MELANIE:

But Captain Butler, most babies have blue eyes when

they're born.

SCARLETT:

Don't try and tell him anything, Mellie, he knows

everything about babies.

RHETT:

Nevertheless, her eyes are blue and they're going to

stay blue.

MELANIE:

As blue as the bonnie blue flag.

RHETT:

That's it. That's what we'll call her. Bonnie Blue

Butler.

(In the bedroom, Scarlett is having Mammie measure

her waist.)

SCARLETT:

Try again Mammie. MAMMIE

Twenty inches.

SCARLETT:

Twenty inches? I've grown as big as Aunt Pitty.

You've simply got to make it eighteen and a half

again, Mammie.

MAMMIE:

You done had a baby, Miss Scarlett. And you ain't

never going to be no eighteen and a half inches

again. Never. And there ain't nothing to do about it.

SCARLETT:

There is something to do about it. I'm just not going

to get old and fat before my time. I just won't have

any more babies.

MAMMIE:

I heard Mr. Rhett said that he'd be wanting to have a

son next year.

SCARLETT:

Go tell Captain Butler I decided not to go out after

all. I'll have supper in my room.

(Scarlett sits motionless in the chair, fixing her

eyes on a picture. It is a picture of Ashley. Then

Rhett comes in. Scarlett hurrily turns the picture

upside down.)

RHETT:

I got your message. I'll have them bring my supper up

here too. No objections to that, I hope.

SCARLETT:

No...yes, I...I mean I don't care where you have your

supper. Rhett?

RHETT:

Yes?

SCARLETT:

You see...well, I've decided-well, I hope I don't

have any more children.

(Rhett notices the picture ofAshley.)

RHETT:

My pet, as I told you before Bonnie was born. It is

immaterial to me whether you have one child or

twenty.

SCARLETT:

I know, but do you know what I...do you know what I

mean?

RHETT:

I do. And do you know I can divorce you for this?

SCARLETT:

You're just low enough to think of something like

that. If you had any chivalry in you, you'd be nice,

like...well look at Ashley Wilkes. Melanie can't have

anymore children and he...he...

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