"From Gone with the Wind?" she asks, wrinkling her nose. Beth has never seen it, but she likes to think she's significantly tougher than the idea she has in her head of Scarlett and the Southern Belle stereotype. Or, even worse, the one that makes her want to punch people in the mouth, the Georgia Peach stereotype. Even just thinking it makes her want to shudder with disgust.

That's not what Nate is saying, though, she knows he's only teasing her, trying to get her mind off things and it works for a moment or two, then moves back in the direction it's been straying for months now.

"He's not Southern, he lived on a train," she says with a laugh. "I don't think he lived too south before that either, he doesn't sound like he's from Georgia or anywhere like that. I should ask him. All I really know about's the train."