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?