Gone with the Wind Page #5

SCARLETT:

With you?

RHETT:

Yes Ma'am. I'm the man who understands you and

admires you for just what you are. I figure we belong

together, being the same sort. I've been waiting for

you to grow up and get that sad-eyed Ashley Wilkes

out of your heart. Well, I hear Mrs. Wilkes is going

to have a baby in another month or so. It's be hard

loving a man with a wife and baby clinging to him.

Well, here we are. Are you going with me or are you

getting out?

SCARLETT:

I hate and despise you, Rhett Butler. And I'll hate

and despise you till I die!

RHETT:

Oh, no, you won't, Scarlett, not that long.

(The Hamiltons. Scarlett is packing, preparing for

leaving.)

DR. MEADE

What is this? You ain't planning on running away?

SCARLETT:

And don't you dare try to stop me. I'm never going

back to that hospital, I've had enough of smelling

death and rot and death...I'm going home, I want my

mother. My mother needs me.

DR. MEADE

You've got to listen to me. You must stay here.

AUNT PITTY:

Without a chaperone, Dr. Meade, it simply isn't done.

DR. MEADE

Good Heaven's woman, this is war, not a garden party.

Scarlett, you've got to stay, Melanie needs you.

SCARLETT:

Oh, bother Melanie!

DR. MEADE

She's ill already. She shouldn't even be having a

baby. She may have a difficult time.

SCARLETT:

Can't we take her along?

DR. MEADE

Would you want her to take that chance? Would you

want her to be taunted over rough roads and have the

baby ahead of time in the buggy?

SCARLETT:

It isn't my baby, you take care of it.

DR. MEADE

Scarlett, we haven't enough doctors, much less nurses

to look after a sick woman. You've got to stay for

Melanie.

SCARLETT:

What for? I don't know anything about babies being

borne.

PRISSY:

I knows! I knows! I knows how to do it. I've done it

lots and lots. let me doctor, let me. I can do

everything.

DR. MEADE

Good. Then I'll rely on you to help us.

PRISSY:

Yes Doctor.

DR. MEADE

Ashley's fighting on the field. Fighting for the

cause. He may never come back. He may die. Scarlett,

we owe him a well borne child.

AUNT PITTY:

If you're coming Scarlett, hurry!

SCARLETT:

I promised Ashley, something.

DR. MEADE

Then you'll stay? Good. Go along Miss Pittifett.

Scarlett's staying.

SCARLETT:

Prissy! Prissy! Come here Prissy! Go pack my things

and Miss Melanie's, too. We're to Tara right away,

the Yankees are coming.

MELANIE:

Scarlett! Scarlett!

SCARLETT:

Oh, Melanie, we're going to... Melanie.

MELANIE:

I'm sorry to be such a bother, Scarlett. It'll begin

at daybreak.

SCARLETT:

But, the Yankees are coming.

MELANIE:

Poor Scarlett...you'd be at Tara now with your

mother, wouldn't you? If it weren't for me...Oh,

Scarlett darling, you've been so good to me. No

sister could have been sweeter. I've been lying here

thinking, if I should die, will you take my baby?

SCARLETT:

Oh, fiddle-dee-dee, Melanie, aren't things bad enough

without you talking about dying? I'll send for Dr.

Meade right away.

MELANIE:

Not yet, Scarlett. I couldn't let Dr. Meade sit here

for hours while, while all those poor, badly wounded

boys...

SCARLETT:

Prissy! Prissy come here quick! Prissy, go get Dr.

Meade, run quick! Don't stand there like a scared

goat, run! Hurry, Hurry! I'll sell you South I will,

I swear I will! I'll sell you South!

(Later, Prissy comes back alone. Scarlett has to

find the doctor herself.)

PRISSY:

Is the doctor coming?

SCARLETT:

No, he can't come.

PRISSY:

Oh, Miss Scarlett, Miss Melanie bad off!

SCARLETT:

He can't come, there's nobody to come. Prissy, you've

got to manage without the doctor. I'll help you.

PRISSY:

Oh, lawdsy, Miss Scarlett!

SCARLETT:

What is it?

PRISSY:

Lawdsy, we've got to have a doctor! I don't know

nothing about birthing babies.

SCARLETT:

What do you mean? You told me you knew everything

about it!

PRISSY:

I don't know how can I tell such a lie. Ma ain't

never let me around when folks was having them.

SCARLETT:

Go! Stop it! Go light a fire on the stove. Get

boiling water in the kettle. Get me a ball of twine,

and all the clean towels you can find, and, the

scissors. And don't come telling me you can't find

them. Go get them and get them quick!

Chapter 6 Back to Tara

(Panic hit the city with the first of Sherman

shells... Helpless and unarmed, the populace fled

from the oncoming Juggernaut¡­ And desperately the

gallant "remnants of an army marched out to face the

foe. Melanie gives birth to a child with the help of

Scarlett. Now Scarlett sends Prissy for Rhett Butler,

she's getting ready to leave.)

RHETT:

Whoah, whoah.

SCARLETT:

Rhett, is that you, Rhett?

PRISSY:

He's here, Miss Scarlett, he's here!

SCARLETT:

Oh, Rhett, I knew you'd come.

RHETT:

Good evening. Nice weather we're having. Prissy tells

me you're planning on...

SCARLETT:

If you make any jokes now, I'll kill you!

RHETT:

Don't tell me you're frightened.

SCARLETT:

I'm scared to death, and if you had the sense of a

goat you'd be scared, too! Oh, the Yankees!

RHETT:

No, not yet, that's what's left by our army blowing

up the ammunition, so the Yankees won't get it.

SCARLETT:

We've got to get out of here.

RHETT:

At your service, Madame. Just where were you figuring

on going?

SCARLETT:

Home, to Tara.

RHETT:

Tara? Don't you know that they've been fighting all

day around Tara? Do you think you can parade right

through the Yankee army with a sick woman, a baby and

simply minded darkie? Or do you intend leaving them

behind.

SCARLETT:

They're going with me and I'm going home and you

can't stop me!

RHETT:

Don't you know it's dangerous jouncing Mrs. Wilkes

over miles of open country?

SCARLETT:

I want my mother! I want to go home to Tara!

RHETT:

Tara's probably been burned to the ground. The woods

are full of stragglers from both armies, the least

thing they'll do is take the horse away from you. And

even though it isn't much of an animal, I did have a

lot of trouble stealing it.

SCARLETT:

I'm going home if I have to walk every step of the

way! I'll kill you if you try to stop me, I will! I

will! I will! I will!

RHETT:

It's all right, darling, it's all right. Now you

shall go home. I guess anybody who did what you've

done today can take care of Sherman. Stop crying. Now

blow your nose like a good little girl...there...

SCARLETT:

Prissy, what are you doing? PRISSY

I'm packing, Miss Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

Well, stop it. Come and get the baby.

PRISSY:

Yes.

SCARLETT:

Melanie, Melanie...

RHETT:

Mrs. Wilkes. We're taking you to Tara.

MELANIE:

Tara...

SCARLETT:

It's the only way, Melanie.

MELANIE:

No...

SCARLETT:

Sherman will bum the house over our heads if we stay.

It's all right, Melanie, it's all right.

MELANIE:

There, there.... little baby..

RHETT:

Have you the strength to put your arms around my

neck?

MELANIE:

I think so.

RHETT:

Never mind.

MELANIE:

Oh, Ashley.. Charles!

RHETT:

What is it? What does she want?

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