But they were all well mannered, beautifully tailored, and they evidently admired her, so it mattered little to Scarlett that they chose to live utterly in the present.
Anna’s husband – Count Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin is a fussy, status conscious, mannered high-ranking government official who is often callous towards Anna and unable to answer any of her emotional yearnings.
Hence, in his intercourse with Chang, he was sufficiently unpreoccupied to see in him a mannered old gentleman who might not be entirely trustworthy, but who was certainly of high intelligence.
She had put Savannah and its memories behind her when she left that gently mannered city by the sea, and, from the moment of her arrival in the County, north Georgia was her home.