1 But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed.
2 Scarlett longed to be there now, alone with Ellen, so she could put her head in her mother's lap and cry in peace.
3 Mammy plucked a large towel from the washstand and carefully tied it around Scarlett's neck, spreading the white folds over her lap.
4 Mammy, as head woman of the plantation, had remained to help Ellen, and it was Dilcey who rode on the driver's seat beside Toby, the girls' dancing dresses in a long box across her lap.
5 If she could only be with Ellen, just to see her, to hold onto her skirt, to cry and pour out the whole story in her lap.
6 She said nothing but looked down into her lap, and Charles was thrown into new states of ecstasy and embarrassment.
7 Little Wade was no longer an annoyance, for the family, black and white, and the neighbors idolized him and there was a never-ceasing rivalry as to whose lap he should occupy.
8 Melanie had been sitting quietly, her hands in her lap, her waffles cooling on her plate.
9 She put the letters back in the lap secretary and closed the lid.
10 Rhett rose swiftly, deposited Wade in Fanny's lap, and went into the parlor.
11 Fanny Elsing and the Bonnell girls, roused early from slumber, were yawning on the back seat and the Elsings' mammy sat grumpily on the box, a basket of freshly laundered bandages on her lap.
12 People's faces looked pinched and the few soldiers Scarlett saw wore the exhausted look of racers forcing themselves on through the last lap of a race already lost.
13 She was a child and mad with fright and she wanted to bury her head in her mother's lap and shut out this sight.
14 "I--I have a pistol," she whispered, clutching the weapon in her lap, perfectly certain that if death stared her in the face, she would be too frightened to pull the trigger.
15 But, as twilight came, they at last entered the final lap of the long journey.