1 This plan had the advantage of enabling him to send Jotham to the Flats after dinner to meet Zenobia, while he himself took the lumber down to the village.
2 With ordinary luck he should have had time to carry out this plan; but everything went wrong from the start.
3 The more he considered his plan the more hopeful it seemed.
4 Her voice was raised questioningly, as though she hung on Gerald's assent to her plan, a mere formality but one dear to the heart of Gerald.
5 By the time Scarlett had undressed and blown out the candle, her plan for tomorrow had worked itself out in every detail.
6 It was a simple plan, for, with Gerald's single-mindedness of purpose, her eyes were centered on the goal and she thought only of the most direct steps by which to reach it.
7 There would be no one at the barbecue who, by delicately lifted brows or out-thrust underlip, could interfere with her plan of action.
8 However, remembering her plan, Scarlett smothered her contempt and cast such a flashing smile of greeting at him that he stopped short, his arm outheld to Suellen and goggled at Scarlett in pleased bewilderment.
9 "He has a lot of money," she was thinking swiftly, as a thought and a plan went through her brain.
10 It did not occur to her to plan just what they would do if Ashley should declare his love for her in unmistakable words.
11 Instantly she abandoned her plan.
12 Once, Scarlett, in desperation, started to ride out herself to search for food, but the hysterical outbursts of the whole family fearful of the Yankees made her abandon the plan.
13 She gave her approval to the plan of hiring out the horse even though it meant the family would be without any means of transportation temporarily.
14 And she knew that, loving Ashley as she did, her plan was doubly prostitution.
15 I'm sorry to have involved him and the others in such a--a-- But I had to think fast when I rode away from here and that was the only plan that occurred to me.