Chapter 3 Scarlett Marrying
Charles
(Outside, there‘s chaos. Gentlemen, including Ashley, are
leaving for the call of war.)
CHARLES: Miss 0‘ Hara! Miss 0‘ Hara, isn‘t it thrilling?
Mr. Lincoln has called the soldiers, volunteers to fight
against us.
SCARLETT: Oh, fiddle-dee-dee. Don‘t you men ever think
about anything important?
CHARLES: But it‘s war, Miss O‘Hara! And everybody‘s
going off to enlist, they‘re going right away. I‘m going,
too!
SCARLETT: Everybody?
CHARLES: Oh, Miss O‘Hara, will you be sorry? To see us
go,I mean.
SCARLETT: I‘ll cry to my pillow every night.
CHARLES: Oh, Miss O‘Hara, I‘ve told you I loved you. I
think you‘re the most beautiful girl in the world. And the
sweetest, the dearest. I know that I couldn‘t hope that
you could love me, so "clumsy and stupid, not nearly good
enough for you. But if you could, if you could think of
marrying me, I‘d do anything in the world for you, just
anything, I promise!
SCARLETT: Oh, what did you say?
CHARLES: Miss O‘Hara, I said, would you marry me?
SCARLETT: Yes, Mr. Hamilton, I will.
CHARLES: You will, you‘ll marry me? You‘ll wait for me?
SCARLETT: Well, I don‘t think I‘d want to wait.
CHARLES: You mean you‘ll marry me before I go? Oh,
Miss O‘Hara...Scarlett...when may I speak to your father?
SCARLETT: The sooner, the better.
CHARLES: I‘ll go now, I can‘t wait. Will you excuse me?
Dear?
(The day after Melanie and Ashley‘s wedding, Scarlett
marries Charles Hamilton.)
MELANIE: Scarlett. I thought of you at our wedding
yesterday and I hope that yours would be as beautiful.
And it was.
SCARLETT: Was it?
MELANIE: Now we‘re really and truly sisters. Charles.
CHARLES: Don‘t cry darling. The war will be over in a
few weeks and I‘ll be coming back to you.
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