Chapter 58

           InthetimethatfollowedherillnessScarlettnoticedachangeinRhettandshewasnotaltogethercertainthatshelikedit.Hewassoberandquietandpreoccupied.HewasathomemoreoftenforsuppernowandhewaskindertotheservantsandmoreaffectionatetoWadeandElla.Heneverreferredtoanythingintheirpast,pleasantorotherwise,andsilentlyseemedtodarehertobringupsuchsubjects.Scarlettheldherpeace,foritwaseasiertoletwellenoughalone,andlifewentonsmoothlyenough,onthesurface.Hisimpersonalcourtesytowardherthathadbegunduringherconvalescencecontinuedandhedidnotflingsoftlydrawledbarbsatherorstingherwithsarcasm.Sherealizednowthatthoughhehadinfuriatedherwithhismaliciouscommentsandrousedhertoheatedrejoinders,hehaddoneitbecausehecaredwhatshedidandsaid.Nowshewonderedifhecaredaboutanythingshedid.Hewaspoliteanddisinterestedandshemissedhisinterest,perversethoughithadbeen,missedtheolddaysofbickeringandretort.

           Hewaspleasanttohernow,almostasthoughshewereastranger;but,ashiseyeshadoncefollowedher,theynowfollowedBonnie.Itwasasthoughtheswiftfloodofhislifehadbeendivertedintoonenarrowchannel.SometimesScarlettthoughtthatifRhetthadgivenherone-halftheattentionandtendernesshelavishedonBonnie,lifewouldhavebeendifferent.

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