He can't come. There's nobody to come. Prissy, you've got to manage without
the doctor. I'll help you.
PRISSY
Oh, Lordsy, Miss Scarlett!
SCARL
Well, what is it?
PRISSY
Lordsy, we's got to have a doctor! I don't know nothing about birthing
babies!
SCARL
What do you mean?
PRISSY
I don't know!
SCARL
You told me you knew everything about it!
PRISSY
I don't know how come I tell such a lie! Ma ain't never let me around when
folkses was having them. Ahaaa! Ahaaa!
MELLY
Scarlet! Scarlet!
PRISSY
Oh, Miss Scarlet...
SCARL
Stop it! Go light a fire in the stove. Keep boiling water in the kettle.
Get me a ball of twine, and all the clean towels you can find, and the
scissors. Don't come telling me you can't find them. Go get them, get them
quick!
PRISSY
Yes'm.
MELLY
Scarlett! Scarlett! Scarlett!
SCARL
Coming, Melly. Coming!
MELLY
Go, Scarlett, before the Yankees get here.
SCARL
I'm not afraid. You know I won't leave you.
MELLY
It's no use. I'm going to die.
SCARL
Don't be a goose, Melly. Hold on to me! Hold on to me!
MELLY
Talk to me, Scarlett. Please, talk to me!
SCARL
Don't try to be brave,Melly. Yell all you want to. There's nobody to hear.
PRISSY
Ma says that if you put a knife under the bed, it cut the pain in two.