"Miss O'Hara, I must tell you something. I love you! ”

"Really?" Scarlett said casually, looking into the arguing crowd to see Ashley still sitting at Melanie's feet talking.

"Yes!" Charles whispered that he had always thought that the young girl would either laugh and scream or faint when she encountered such a situation, but she neither laughed nor screamed, nor fainted, which really made him ecstatic. "I love you, you're the best girl I've ever known," he was so bold for the first time in his life. "The most beautiful, the loveliest, the gentleest, the most amiable one, I love you with all my heart. I don't dare expect you to fall in love with me, but, dear Miss O'Hara, if you can give me encouragement, I will do anything to please you. I'm willing—"

Charles stopped, because he couldn't think of anything difficult to really prove his deep feelings, so he simply said Yuanye, I want to marry you. ”

As soon as Scarlett heard the word "marriage", her heart moved, and she suddenly returned to reality. Just now, she had been thinking about getting married and thinking about Ashley, but at this time, she couldn't hold back the troubles in her heart and glanced at Charles. Why does this stunned boy have to pick her on an unusually troubled day to pour out his heartfelt feelings to her? She looked carefully at the brown eyes that were courting her in both directions, and she couldn't see the beauty of the shy young man's first love, nor the reverence after realizing the ideal, nor the ecstasy and tenderness that burned like a fire. Scarlett was accustomed to men who proposed to her, men who were more attractive and skillful than Charles Hamilton, and who would never propose to her at a banquet where she had more important things on mind. In front of her now was a twenty-year-old young man, flushed and stupid. She wanted to tell him that he looked stupid. Fortunately, the two emergency words that her mother had usually taught her naturally came to her lips, and because of the effect of habit, she lowered her eyes and muttered, "Mr. Hamilton, I have offered to be your wife, but this matter is so sudden, I don't know what to say." ”

This is a clever way to kill two birds with one stone, which can not only save the man's face, but also stabilize him, Charles really took the bait, as if he had never seen this kind of bait, and suddenly fell for her plan.

"I'll wait forever! I'm not going to ask you to marry me unless you agree to it. Miss O'Hara, please tell me that I still have hope. ”

"Hmm." Scarlett said. Her eyes were sharp, and she noticed that Ashley was not standing up to join in the discussion about the war, but was looking up and smiling at Melanie. The fool who was holding her hand would only be willing to be quiet for a moment, and she might be able to hear what they were saying. She had to listen to their conversation. What did Melanie say to him that made his eyes look very interested?

She didn't say a word, forcing him to continue.

"How can I make you understand these things, my dear? You're so young, and you don't think twice about it, you don't even understand what marriage is all about. ”

"I know I love you."

"People like us who lack common interests will not be happy even if they are married. Scarlett, what you are asking for is the whole person, including his body, his mind and his mind. If you don't get it, you'll be miserable. But I can't give you my whole being. I can't give my whole person to anyone. I won't want your whole head and heart either. Then you'll be sad, and you'll hate me so much! You're going to hate the books I read, the music I love, because these things snatch me away from you, even if it's just for a while. And I'm one, maybe I'm one."

"Do you love her?"

"She's like me, we're partly of the same blood, we know each other. Scarlett! Scarlett! Don't you understand what I'm saying? Unless two people have similar interests, their marriage will never be harmonious. ”

Someone once said that the hospital "must marry someone with similar interests, otherwise it will not be happy." "Who said that? She seemed to have heard it for a million years, but she still couldn't understand it.

"But you said you liked me."

"I shouldn't have said that."

A wave of anger gradually welled up in her head, and she couldn't care about anything in the rage.

"Come on, that's a bastard's one"

His face turned white.