But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.