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外面的人为此议论更加强烈，弗兰克的朋友们不敢和他说什么，但弗兰克明显感觉到别人正在减少和自己的接触，思嘉并不在乎别人的眼光，但弗兰克受不了。他一直很在乎邻居的眼光，现在自己妻子的做法却让大家很不满，只要弗兰克一提起这些事情，思嘉便大发雷霆。她的脾气已经坏到极点，稍有不顺便大发脾气。这个时候，大家都会躲到自己的房间里，除了这些年来已经习惯的嬷嬷。
思嘉自己并不是存心发脾气的，她非常感激弗兰克在塔拉苦难的时候慷慨解囊，但她受不了弗兰克的懦弱无能。弗兰克根本不具备成功商人的品质，他一直不肯收回老朋友的欠款，这让思嘉很烦恼。弗兰克那种旧的传统思想和经商理念已经跟不上时代的脚步，像那样经营顶多只能解决温饱问题。思嘉的锯木厂竞争越来越激烈，每次回家埋怨的时候弗兰克总会劝她放弃，这又惹得思嘉不停地发脾气。如果弗兰克自己没有赚钱的能力，就不应该对自己的生意加以阻止。弗兰克为了得到安宁只得让步，他不再唠叨，为了让思嘉把精力放在家庭上，他想到了孩子。如果有了孩子，思嘉就没有时间经营锯木厂，到时候只能呆在家里照顾孩子。很多次夜里醒来，弗兰克总会发现思嘉埋在枕头里哭泣，却又不说是什么事情，弗兰克只觉得自己似乎越来越无奈，只能把希望全部寄托于孩子身上。
She married Frank Kennedy two weeks later after a whirlwindcourtship which she blushingly told him left her too breathless to oppose his ardor any longer.
He did not know that during those two weeks she had walked the floor at night, gritting her teeth at the slowness with which he took hints and encouragements, praying that no untimely letter from Suellen would reach him and ruin her plans. She thanked God that her sister was the poorest of correspondents, delighting to receive letters and disliking to write them.But there was always a chance, always a chance, she thought in the long night hours as she padded back and forth across the cold floor of her bedroom, with Ellen"s faded shawl clutched about her nightdress.Frank did not know she had received a laconic letter from Will, relating that Jonas Wilkerson had paid another call at Tara and, finding her gone to Atlanta, had stormed about untilWill and Ashley threw him bodily off the place.Will"s letter hammered into her mind the fact she knew only too well—that time was getting shorter and shorter before the extra taxes must be paid.A fierce desperation drove her as she saw the days slipping by and she wished she might grasp the hourglass in her hands and keep the sands from running.