The change had been so gradual, the flouting of one small convention seeming to have no connection with the flouting of another, and none of them any connection with Rhett.

• 变化是慢慢发生的，从蔑视一种小小的习俗到蔑视另一种习俗，中间似乎没有什么联系，至于瑞德在其中起的作用就更不明显了。