chapter 4 scarlett's second contact with butler

( charles died at the front, but scarlett is not at all sad. she goes to the donation party with melanie, wearing black.)
dr. meade: ladies and gentlemen. i have important news, glorious news.
another triumph for our magnificent men in arms. general lee has completely whipped the enemy and swept the yankee army northward from virginia! and now, a happy surprise for all of us! we have with us tonight that most daring of all blockade runners, whose fleet "schooners slipping past the yankee guns have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight. i refer, ladies and gentlemen, to that ^will o'the wisp of the bounding main, none other than our friend from charleston, captain
rhett butler!

melanie: captain butler, such a pleasure to see you again. i met you last at my husband's home. rhett: that's kind of you to remember, mrs. wilkes.

melanie: did you meet captain butler at twelve oaks, scarlett?

scarlett: yes i, i think so.

rhett: only for a moment, mrs. hamilton, it was in the library. you, uh, had broken something.

scarlett: yes, captain butler, i remember you.

man: ladies, the confederacy asks for your jewelry on behalf of our noble cause.

scarlett: we aren't wearing any, we're in mourning.

rhett: wait. on behalf of mrs. wilkes and mrs. hamilton,.

man: thank you, captain butler.

melanie: just a moment, please.

man: but, it's your wedding ring, ma'am.

melanie: it may help my husband more, off my finger.

man:thank you.

rhett: it was a very beautiful thing to do, mrs. wilkes.

scarlett: here, you can have mine, too. for the cause.

rhett: and you mrs. hamilton. i know just how much that means to you.

man: melanie.-.i need your approval as a member of the committee with something we want to do, that's rather shocking. will you excuse us, please?

rhett: i'll say one thing. the war makes the most peculiar widows.

scarlett: i wish you'd go away. if you'd had any raising, you'd know i never want to see you again.