He said quietly: “I was in the Confederate Army for eight months. I don’t know any better place for starving.”
“ The army! Bah! You’ve never had to pick cotton and w**d corn. You’ve — Don’t you laugh at me!”
His hands were on hers again as her voice rose harshly.
“ I wasn’t laughing at you. I was laughing at the difference in what you look and what you really are. And I was remembering the first time I ever saw you, at the barbecue at the Wilkes’. You had on a green dress and little green slippers, and you were knee deep in men and quite full of yourself. I’ll wager you didn’t know then how many pennies were in a dollar. There was only one idea in your whole mind then and that was ensnaring Ash —”
She jerked her hands away from him.
“ Rhett, if we are to get on at all, you’ll have
