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Rhett looked at his son in disbelief. "What do you mean?" He asked almost breathlessly.
"I mean that my wife is going to have a baby. That I'm going to be a father." He was beaming with happiness; he had every initiation of being a better father then what Rhett had been to him. But he wanted to try and make things better between the two of them first.
"Oh." Rhett collapsed into a chair. "That's just great." He sat there looking at the wall thinking, Rhett wasn't sure what he should do about anything. First; Scarlett shows up acting like she doesn't know that he doesn't love her anymore and then his son shows up with news that he's going to be a grandfather.
"All you alright?"
Rhett looked at his son in disbelief. "How could you ask me that? The son that I..."
"Now before you say anything that you're going to regret, here me out. Why don't you let Kathleen and me stay for...? I don't know ... say a month. Get to know her and me. Then decide if you want us to leave you alone for eternity."
Rhett looked at him pensively, he wasn't sure if he should say yes or not. "After a month if I ask you to leave, you will? I won't have to ask you more then once?"
"Yes, if you want us to leave in a month time we will. But I don't think that will be the case. Why don't we go get Grandma and our wives out here before they start to wonder what we're doing."
Rhett nodded his head and went to go invite the women to join them.
"Well, I guess I was..."
"There is no guess, I admire you for what you did."
"I pushed my family away from me because of my curlity. Then I betrayed my sister for money. How can you say that you admire me?"
"First of all you didn't tell me that. Second, was she your middle sister?" Scarlett nodded. "Well, then I take it that she was a spoiled little whiner." Kathleen noticed that Scarlett was nodding her head again. "Then I can only assume that she did things to help herself at times, she probably only thought of herself. Most likely she didn't care about anyone else but herself."
Scarlett remembered how and why her father died, truth it had been Sullen's fault. She had been tried of wearing wags and she wanted new cloths. Scarlett saw what Kathleen was saying but she still couldn't help but feel guilty for what she had done when her family needed her not only to take care of things but to be a caring person.
"I see what you're saying but..."
"Listen, did you do what you think was right?"
Scarlett looked at her, "Yes."
"Did what you did keep your family alive?"
"Yes."
"Then don't swell in your guilt because it will do you no good. For a number of reason. One, you'll destroy yourself if you do. Second, it's the past and you can't change it. Third, there's always a chance to fix it if you're willing to try. It may take years and a whole lot of patience; just let old wounds heal and hope for the best."
Scarlett looked at the girl knowing that it wouldn't be that easy. Nothing came that easy but she couldn't help but wonder what would happen if she did try and make pace with her sister. It wouldn't hurt and it might make things easier on her if she did. "I don't know, I don't know if that would work. And just because it kept my family alive doesn't mean that it was right."
"No, it doesn't. But what about the poor man who steals to feed his children. Is what he does wrong because it's stealing or was it wrong for his government to tax him into poverty? Just because it was immorally wrong doesn't mean that it's logically wrong. Because the two are very different things."
Rhett had heard everything that Kathleen had just said to Scarlett, he couldn't believe his ears. No one in their right mind had ever looked at Scarlett's decisions in that fashion before, no one but him anyways. The girl was right, but it wasn't something that his mother would want to hear. Granted his mother could understand where she was coming from but is wasn't right for a lady to act in such a way. And for a lady to say such things about such actions were not something that was called for. Rhett didn't know if he should interrupted or let them finish talking. He decided that he should say something. "Why don't we go into the parlor for the rest of the evening? I'm sure that everyone would be much more comfortable." Rhett smiled at everyone in the room and then lead the way to the parlor; shacking his head at what he had just over heard.
