Scarlett knew from experience that, if Mammy's curiosity were not immediately satisfied, she would take up the matter with Ellen, and then Scarlett would be forced to reveal everything to her mother, or think up some plausible lie.

根据的经验，思嘉知道如果嬷嬷的好奇心不能足，她就会去跟妈妈一起嘀咕，那时便只好向母亲交代一，要不就得编出一个像样的谎话来。

She was too frightened and weighed down by a sense of past guilt to try to understand it.

可是她被一种罪过的负疚心情压得太重，吓得太厉害了，因此还不想去理会这个问题。

Lil, I think this morning has been a step in the right direction.

莉莉 我觉得今天早上我们之间好的方向发展。