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Chapter 3

           ButScarlettintendedtomarryandmarryAshleyandshewaswillingtoappeardemure,pliableandscatterbrained,ifthosewerethequalitiesthatattractedmen.Justwhymenshouldbethisway,shedidnotknow.Sheonlyknewthatsuchmethodsworked.Itneverinterestedherenoughtotrytothinkoutthereasonforit,forsheknewnothingoftheinnerworkingsofanyhumanbeing’smind,notevenherown.Sheknewonlythatifshedidorsaidthus-and-so,menwouldunerringlyrespondwiththecomplementarythus-and-so.Itwaslikeamathematicalformulaandnomoredifficult,formathematicswastheonesubjectthathadcomeeasytoScarlettinherschooldays.

           Ifsheknewlittleaboutmen’sminds,sheknewevenlessaboutthemindsofwomen,fortheyinterestedherless.Shehadneverhadagirlfriend,andsheneverfeltanylackonthataccount.Toher,allwomen,includinghertwosisters,werenaturalenemiesinpursuitofthesamepreyman.

           Allwomenwiththeoneexceptionofhermother.

           EllenO’Harawasdifferent,andScarlettregardedherassomethingholyandapartfromalltherestofhumankind.WhenScarlettwasachild,shehadconfusedhermotherwiththeVirginMary,andnowthatshewasoldershesawnoreasonforchangingheropinion.Toher,EllenrepresentedtheuttersecuritythatonlyHeavenoramothercangive.Sheknewthathermotherwastheembodimentofjustice,truth,lovingtendernessandprofoundwisdomagreatlady.

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