It didn't mean a thing that she had hated it After all, she'd been so young then, only seventeen, and a new widow with a baby, besidesWade Hampton hadn't even cut his teeth yet That was over twelve years agoEverything would be completely different nowIt was all going to work out just fine, just the way she wanted "Pansy, go tell the conductor to move our things, I want to sit closer to the stoveThere's a draft from this window Scarlett sent a telegram to her aunts from the station in Augusta where she changed to the South Carolina railroad line: ARRIVING F0UR PM TRAIN FOR vISiT STOP 0NLY 0NE SERVANT STOP L0VE Scarlett She had thought it all outExactly ten words, and there was no risk that her aunts would wire back some excuse to keep her men's rolex watches from coming, because she was already on her wayNot that they'd be likely toEulalie was forever begging her to come see them, and hospitality was still the unwritten law of the land in the South But no sense gambling when you could have a sure thing, and she had to have her aunts' house and protection to begin withCharleston was a mighty stuck-up, proud place, and Rhett was obviously trying to turn people against herNo, she wouldn't think about thatShe was going to love Charleston this time Everything was going to be differentHer whole life was going to be differentDon't look back, she'd always told herselfNow she truly meant itHer whole life was behind her, further behind with each turn of the wheelsAll the demands of her businesses were in fendi large clutch Uncle Henry's hands, her responsibilities to Melanie were taken care ol, her children were settled at TaraFor the first time in her adult life she was free to do anything she wanted to do, and she knew what that was She'd prove to Rhett that he was wrong when he refused to believe that she loved himShe'd show him that she didAnd then he'd be sorry he'd left herHe'd put his arms around her and kiss her, and they'd be happy forever after Even in Charleston if he insisted on staying thereLost in her daydream, Scarlett didn't notice the man who got onto the train at Ridgeville until he lurched against the arm of her seatThen she recoiled as if he had struck herHe was in the blue uniform of the Union ArmyA Yankee! What was he doing here? Those vintage cartier ladies watch days were done, and she wanted to forget them forever, but the sight of the uniform brought them all backThe fear when Atlanta was under siege, the brutality of the soldiers when they stripped Tara of its pitiful store of food and set fire to the house, the explosion of blood when she shot the straggler before he could rape her Scarlett felt her heart pounding with terror all over again, and she almost cried outDamn them, damn them all for destroying the SouthDamn them most of all for making her feel helpless and afraidShe hated the feeling, and she hated them! I won't let it upset me, I won't I can't let anything bother me now, not when I need to be at my best, ready for Charleston and RhettI won't look at the Yankee, and I won't think chanel quilted handbag about the pastOnly the future counts now Scarlett stared resolutely out the window at the hilly countryside, so similar to the land around AtlantaRed clay roads through stands of dark pine woods and fields of frostdarkened crop stubble She'd been travelling for more than a day, and she might as well have never left homeHurry, she urged the engine, do hurry "What's Charleston like, Miss Scarlett?" Pansy asked for the hundredth time just as the light was beginning to fade outside the window"Very pretty, you'll like it fine," Scarlett answered for the hundredth time "There!" She pointed at the landscape"See that tree with the stuff hanging off it? That's the Spanish moss I told you about Pansy pressed her nose to the sooty pane"Oooh," she very cheap chanel bags whimpered