@@@@@Couldn't this stupid girl understand
@@@@@Couldn't this stupid girl understand that?
No, she couldn't, she'd never loved anybody, never had anybody love
her
Scarlett tried to scrabble to her feetOh, sweet Mary, Mother of God,
I'm so weakHer hands found the bedpostSlowly she pulled herself
uprightShe was as white as a ghost, her green eyes blazed like cold
flames"I'm going to Rhett," she saidRosemary struck her then
Not
with her hands or even her fistsScarlett could have withstood
that
"He doesn't want you," Rosemary said quietly Rhett
paused in mid-sentenceHe looked at Scarlett and said, "What is
this?
No appetite? And they say that country air is supposed to make
people
hungryYou astonish me, my dearI do believe this is the first time
I've ever seen you peck at your food She looked up from her
untouched plate to glare at himHow did he even dare to speak to her
when he had been talking about her behind her back? Who else had
he
talked to besides Rosemary? Did everybody in Charleston know that
he
had walked out in Atlanta and that she'd made a fool of herself by
coming after him? She looked down and continued to push bits of
food
from place to place"So then what happened?" Rosemary demanded
"I
still don't understand
"It was just what Miss Julia and I expectedHer field hands and my
phosphate diggers had cooked up a plotYou know that work
contracts
are signed on New Year's Day for the year to followMiss Julia's men
were going to tell her that I paid my miners almost twice what she
paid
and that she'd have to jack up their salaries or they'd come to meMy
men were going to play the same game, only the other way aroundIt
never entered their heads that Miss Julia and I were on to the