How It All Goes Down
- Scarlett is sad and cranky because Ashley is getting married.
- Scarlett and Gerald are having dinner.
- There's some nauseating stuff where Pork and Dilcey bow and scrape because Gerald has deigned to let them live together as man and wife.
- Scarlett meets Prissy, who is to be her servant.
- Ellen returns; the Slattery's baby died.
- There's some talk about the war, and Scarlett and her sisters whine about their dresses for the party the next day. Then they all go off to chapel and pray.
- While praying, Scarlett realizes Ashley doesn't know she loves him.
- So she figures she'll tell him and he'll elope with her and that'll be all.
- The prayers end and Ellen tells Gerald he has to get rid of Jonas Wilkerson, the Yankee overseer, whom they think is the father of Emmy Slattery's dead baby.
- The chapter ends with Scarlett daydreaming again.