Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow. " She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore. " Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young. "
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.