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Just how early in his married life Frank learned of the deception Scarlett had used in marrying him, no one ever knew. Perhaps the truth dawned on him when Tony Fontaine, obviously fancy free, came to Atlanta on business.Perhaps it was told him more directly in letters from his sister in Jonesboro who was astounded at his marriage.Certainly he never learned from Suellen herself.She never wrote him and naturally he could not write her and explain.What good would explanations do anyway, now that he was married？
He writhed inwardly at the thought that Suellen would never know the truth and would always think he had senselessly jilted her.Probably everyone else was thinking this too and criticizing him.It certainly put him in an awkward position.And he had no way of clearing himself, for a man couldn"t go about saying he had lost his head about a woman—and a gentleman couldn"t advertise the fact that his wife had entrapped him with a lie.
Scarlett was his wife and a wife was entitled to the loyalty of her husband. Furthermore, he could not bring himself to believe she had married him coldly and with no affection for him at all.His masculine vanity would not permit such a thought to stay long in his mind.It was more pleasant to think she had fallen so suddenly in love with him she had been willing to lie to get him.But itwas all very puzzling.He knew he was no great catch for a woman half his age and pretty and smart to boot, but Frank was a gentleman and he kept his bewilderment to himself.Scarlett was his wife and he could not insult her by asking awkward questions which, after all, would not remedy matters.