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@@@@@"I've got to go," she repeated If you must, then you mustI'll hope you'll stay longer for the dancing on Saturday, Scarlett? Jamie told me he's going to teach you the reelMaybe Colum will be back by then, too "Oh, Maureen! Are you having another party on Saturday?" "Not to say a partyBut there's always the music and the dancing when the week's work is done and the men bring home their pay packets You'll be here?" Scarlett shook her headI'd love to, but I won't still be in Savannah Her aunts expected her to go back to Charleston with them on Saturday morning's trainShe didn't think she would, she'd never thought soSurely Rhett would come for her long before thenMaybe he was at her grandfather's right nowShe shouldn't have left the houseShe jumped to her feetI'll stop by again before I leave Maybe she'd bring Rhett to meet the O'HarasHe'd fit right in, another big dark-haired man with all the big dark-haired O 'HarasBut he might slouch against the wall in that infuriating elegant way he had and laugh at all of themHe'd always laughed at her halfIrishness, mocked her when she repeated what Pa told her a hundred timesThe O'Haras were great and powerful landowners for centuriesUntil the Battle of the BoyneI don't know why he found that so funnyJust about everybody we know lost their land to the Yankees, it makes sense that Pa 5 folks lost theirs the same way to whoever, the English, I think I'll ask Jamie or Maureen about it, if I get a chanceIf Rhett doesn't take me away fir