Come on, Beau. We must leave this gentleman alone because he's tired and
he's hungry.
SOLDR
I don't mind, ma'am. Good to see a youngster again.
Nice little fellow. Another two years of war and we could have had him
with us in Cobb's Legion.
MELLY
Were you in Cobb's Legion?
SOLDR
Yes, ma'am.
MELLY
Why, then you must know my husband, Major Wilkes!
SOLDR
Oh, yes, ma'am. He was captured at Spotsylvania, I think.
MELLY
Captured! Oh, thank heaven, then he isn't... Oh, my poor Ashley, in a Yankee
prison!
SCARL
Melanie!
MELLY
Yes, Scarlett, I'm coming. Come along, Beau.
SOLDR
I'll watch out for him, ma'am. We're good friends.
MELLY
Oh, thank you.
SCARL
Here I slave day and night just so we can have food to keep body and soul
together,You give it all away to these starving scarecrows. I'd as soon
have a plague of locusts around the place!
MELLY
Oh, don't scold me, Scarlett, please. I've just heard that Ashley was taken prisoner.
SCARL
Ashley, a prisoner!
MELLY
Yes. And maybe if he's alive and well, he's on some Northern road right
now. And maybe some Northern woman is giving him a share of her dinner
and helping my beloved to come back home to me.