Ethan sits in the back of the sled in the steering position, and Mattie sits in the front seat. His horse is crying hungrily in the distance but he beckons Mattie to the sled. 
The power of her suggestion to sled to the death takes him over. Her sobs are intense and Ethan hold her and touches her hair. She says that the real insanity will come if she is separated from Ethan. This time, she doesn't want them to make it back up to the top of the hill. After the successful sled, Mattie begs Ethan for another ride. It's dark, but they decide to take a sled before they go to the train station. She tells him he's the only one for her. Mattie asks Ethan to write to her, but he thinks writing would be a terribly poor substitute for the real thing. She admits she's fantasized about the very thing, almost since the first time she met him. Begging, Ethan asks Mattie if she would have run away with him if he'd asked her to. Mattie shows him that she found the letter he started to write to Zeena. Ethan breaks down, telling her that he had tried to find a way to run away with her but couldn't. (In the early 1900s, a single woman with no money was a hard thing to be.). She has no one else who loves her in the world. Again, her situation is really desperate. They try to drink in ever moment with each other, and Ethan tries to discuss her future. She had asked him to a town picnic he had refused, but later joined her. Ethan takes the scenic route, and heads to Shadow Pond, where Ethan and Mattie had once shared a picnic lunch together. 
Smiling, Ethan tells Mattie they can enjoy their drive together.Zeena has gone to bed without saying a word to Mattie.In a fury he readies the horse and hitches it to the sleigh.Zeena tells him he can't, and he defies her.Ethan whispers in Mattie's ear that he plans to drive her.Zeena calls to them that it's time for Mattie to be headed on with her ride.She thought that Ethan wasn't going to see her off.Appalled that she is moving the heavy thing without manly aid, Ethan jumps up to go help her.Back in the kitchen, Ethan finds Zeena reading a book about kidney problems.
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