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CHAPTER LII ONE RAINY AFTERNOON when Bonnie was barely past her first birthday, Wade moped about the sitting room, occasionally going to the window and flattening his nose on the dripping pane. He was a slender, weedy boy, small for his eight years, quiet almost to shyness, never speaking unless spoken to. He was bored and obviously at loss for entertainment, for Ella was busy in the corner with her dolls, Scarlett was at her secretary muttering to herself as she added a long column of figures, and Rhett was lying on the floor, swinging his watch by its chain, just out of Bonnie's reach. After Wade had picked up several books and let them drop with bangs and sighed deeply, Scarlett turned to him in irritation. "Heavens, Wade! Run out and play." "I can't. It's raining." "Is it? I hadn