(Tara is the beautiful homeland of Scarlett, who is now talking with the twins, Brent and Stew, at the door step.)
BRENT: What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett The war is going to start anyday now so we would have left college anyhow.
STEW: Oh, isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those poor Yankees actually want a war? 
BRENT: We'll show 'em.
SCARLETT: Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk is spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war.
BRENT: Not going to be any war? 
STEW: Ah, buddy, of course there's going to be a war. 
SCARLETT: If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door. 
BRENT: But Scarlett honey..
STEW: Don't you want us to have a war? 
BRENT: Wait a minute, Scarlett...
STEW: We'll talk about this... 
BRENT: No please, we'll do anything you say... 
SCARLETT: Well-but remember I warned you. 
BRENT: I've got an idea. We'll talk about the barbecue the Wilkes are giving over at Twelve Oaks tomorrow. 
STEW: That's a good idea. You're eating barbecue with us, aren't you, Scarlett?
SCARLETT: Well, I hadn't thought about that yet, I'll...I'll think about that tomorrow.
STEW: And we want all your waltzes, there's first Brent, then me, then Brent, 
BRENT:then me again, then Saul. Promise?
SCARLETTT:I'just love to.
STEW: Yahoo!
SCARLETT: If only ..if only I didn't have every one of them taken already.
BRENT: Honey, you can't do that to us.
STEW: How about if we tell you a secret? 
SCARLETT: Secret? Who by?
BRENT: Well, you know Miss Melanie Hamilton, from Atlanta?
STEW: Ashley Wilkes' cousin? Well she's visiting the Wilkes at Twelve Oaks.
SCARLETT: Melanie Hamilton, that goody-goody. Who wants no secret about her. 
BRENT: Well, anyway we heard... 
STEW:That is, they say.. 
BRENT: Ashley Wilkes is going to marry her. 
STEW: You know the Wilkes always marry their cousins. 
BRENT: Now do we get those waltzes? 
SCARLETT: Of course. 
BRENT: Yahoo!
SCARLETT: It can't be true...Ashley loves me. 
STEW: Scarlett!
(Scarlett couldn't accept the fact of Ashley's marriage, she rushes to find her father. Mr.O'Hara is just back from a ride.)
Mr. O'HARA: (To his horse) There's none in the county can touch you, and none in the state. 
SCARLETT: Paw? How proud of yourself you are! 
Mr. O'HARA: Well, it is Scarlett O'Hara. So, you've been spying on me. And like your sister Sue Ellen, you'll be telling your mother on me, that I was jumping again. 
SCARLETT: Oh, Paw, you know I'm no 'tattle like Sue Ellen. But it does seem to me that after you broke your knee last year jumping that same fence......
Mr. O'HARA: I'll not have me own daughter telling me what I shall jump and not jump. It's my own neck, so it is. 
SCARLETT: All right Paw, you jump what you please. How are they all over at Twelve Oaks? 
Mr. O'HARA: The Wilkes? Oh, what you expect, with the barbecue tomorrow and talking, nothing but war... 
SCARLETT: Oh bother the war....was there, was there anyone else there?
Mr. O'HARA: Oh, their cousin Melanie Hamilton from Atlanta. And her brother Charles. 
SCARLETT: Melanie Hamilton. She's a pale-faced mealy-mouthed ninny and I hate her. 
Mr. O'HARA: Ashley Wilkes doesn't think so. 
SCARLETT: Ashley Wilkes couldn't like anyone like her. 
Mr. O'HARA: What's your interest in Ashley and Miss Melanie? 
SCARLETT: It's...it's nothing. Let's go into the house, Paw.
Mr. O'HARA: Has he been trifling with you? Has he asked you to marry him?
SCARLETT: No.
Mr. O'HARA: No, nor will he. I have it in strictest confidence from John Wilkes this afternoon, Ashley is going to marry Miss Melanie. It'll be announced tomorrow night at the ball.
SCARLETT: I don't believe it!
Mr. O'HARA: Here, here what are you after? Scarlett!What are you about? Have you been making a ^spectacle of yourself running about after a man who's not in love with you? When you might have any of the bucks in the county?
SCARLETT: I haven't been running after him, it's...it's just a surprise that's all.
Mr. O'HARA: Now, don't be jerking your chin at me. If Ashley wanted to marry you, it would be with misgivings,I'd say yes. I want my girl to be happy. You'd not be happy with him.
SCARLETT: I would, I would.
Mr. O'HARA: What difference does it make whom you marry? So long as he's a Southerner and thinks like you.And when I'm gone, I leave Tara to you.
SCARLETT: I don't want Tara, plantations don't mean anything when...
Mr. O'Hara: Do you mean to toll me Katie Scarlett O'Hara that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why,land is the only thing in the world worth working for.Worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it's the only thing that lasts.
SCARLETT: Oh, Paw, you talk like an Irishman.
Mr. O'HARA: It's proud I am that I'm Irish. And don't you be forgetting, Missy, that you're half-Irish too. And to anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them, why the land they live on is like their mother. Oh, but there, there, now,you're just a child. It'll come to you, this love of the land.There's no getting away from it if you're Irish.
***分割符***
（德园，思嘉美丽的家园，她正与一对孪生兄弟在台阶上交谈。）
布伦特：思嘉，把我们赶出学校又能怎样呢？战争迟早要爆发，我们早晚要退学。
斯图：战争，那不是很刺激吗，思嘉？你知道那些北佬是实的想打一仗？
布伦特：我们给他们点厉害瞧瞧！
思嘉：全是废话！战争，战争，战争。这个话题让这个春天的每次聚会都索然无味。我要闷死了，真想大叫一声。而且根本也设战争这回事。
布伦特：根本没这事？
斯图：噢，哥们，当然会有战争。
思嘉：如果你们两个家伙再说一个关于战争的字，我就回家关上门不出来了。
布伦特：但是．思嘉，亲爱的……
斯图：你难道不想有战争吗？
布伦特：等等，思嘉……
斯图：我们再谈谈……
布伦特：别，我们都依你……
思嘉：好吧……但是记住，我警告过你们。
布伦特：我有个好主意。我们说说明天威尔克斯家在十二橡树举行的烧烤聚会吧。
斯图：好主意，到时候你跟我们一起烧烤，好吗，思嘉？ 
思嘉：我还没想过呢。我，我明天会考虑的。
斯图：你要和我们跳所有的华尔兹，先是布伦特，再我，再
布伦特：再我，再索尔。说定了？
思嘉：我很乐意。
斯图：哟嗬！
思嘉：如果，如果不是每曲都有别人请我的话。
布伦特：亲爱的，你可不能这样对我们。
斯图：那么我们告诉你一个秘密怎么样？
思嘉：秘密？谁的？
布伦特：你认识媚兰·汉密尔顿小姐吗？亚特兰大那个。
斯图：就是希礼·威尔克斯的表妹。她要来十二橡树拜访威尔克斯家。
思嘉：媚兰·汉密尔顿，那个造作的女孩，没人想知道她的秘密。
布伦特：好吧，反正我们听说……
斯图：他们说……
布伦特：希礼威尔克斯要和她结婚。
斯图：你知道威尔克斯家总是和表亲结婚的。
布伦特：怎样，跟我们跳所有的华尔兹吧？
思嘉：当然。
布伦特：哟嗬！
思嘉：不可能的，希礼爱的人是我。
斯图：思嘉！
（思嘉不能接受希礼结婚的事实，她跑去找父亲。奥哈拉先生刚刚骑马回来。）
奥哈拉：全国，全州都没人敢碰你。
思嘉：爸爸，你很骄傲。
奥哈拉：原来是思嘉·奥哈拉。你在监视我，你是不是要象你妹妹苏爱伦那样向你妈告我的状呢？说我又跳栏栅了？
思嘉：爸爸，你知道我不象苏·爱伦那样爱搬弄是非。但是你去年跳栏弄伤了膝盖，从那后我就觉得这栏……
奥哈拉：我不用我的女儿告诉我是跳还是不跳。这是我自己的事。
思嘉：好吧，爸，随你喜欢吧。十二橡树那边怎么样？
奥哈拉：威尔克斯家？还能有什么呢？明天的烧烤会，谈来谈去不过是战争。
思嘉：烦人的战争，还有其他人吗？·
奥哈拉：还会有他们的表亲，亚特兰大来的媚兰·汉密尔顿。还有她弟弟查尔斯。
思嘉：媚兰·威尔克斯，那个面青唇白的傻瓜，我讨厌她！
奥哈拉：希礼·威尔克斯可不这么想。
思嘉：希礼·威尔克斯可不会喜欢她这种人。
奥哈拉：你怎么对希礼和媚兰小姐这么感兴趣。
思嘉：晤，没什么，我们进屋吧，爸。 
奥哈拉：他缠你了？他向你求婚了？
思嘉：没有。
奥哈拉：想也没有，他也不会。今天下午约翰·威尔克斯报确定地告诉我，希礼要和媚兰小姐结婚。明天晚上在舞会上他们要宣布这个消息。
思嘉：我不相信！
奥哈拉：喂，喂，你想问什么，思嘉？你怎么了？你是不是在追求一个不爱你的人，招人耻笑？这个国家的男人你可以随便挑呀。
思嘉：我没追求他，我只不过是有些惊奇，仅此而已。
奥哈拉：别躲开我，如果希礼想娶你，那我才担心呢，我希望我的女儿快活。你和他不会幸福的。
思嘉：我会的，我会的。
奥哈拉：嫁给谁又有什么区别呢？只要他是个南方人，跟你想法差不多就行。而我死了以后，德园就是你的了。
思嘉：我不要，种植园有什么意思，如果……
奥哈拉：思嘉，你想告诉我德园对你毫无意义吗？要知道，土 地是这个世界上唯一值得你为它去工作，去战斗，去牺牲的东西，因为它是唯一永恒的东西。
思嘉：爸！你说话象个爱尔兰人！
奥哈拉：我正为我是爱尔兰人而光荣呢，而且别忘了，小姐，你也有一半爱尔兰血统，而且任何人只要身上有一滴爱尔兰人血液，他就会爱土地如同爱自己的母亲。不过，你还太小。将来会有一天你会感受到这种爱。只要是爱尔兰人就不会有例外。
