Cathy It would be dreadful if Hindley ever found out.
Found out what? Can't you talk to me once in a while?
Cathy Shouldn't talk to you at all. Look at you. You get worse every day. Dirty, unkempt, and in rags. Why aren't you a man? Heathcliff, why don't you run away?
Cathy You could come back to me rich and take me away. Why aren't you my prince like we said long ago? Why can't you rescue me Heathcliff?
Cathy Where?
Cathy And live in haystacks and steal our food from the marketplaces? No Heathcliff, that's not what I want.
You just want to send me off. That won't do. I've stayed here and been beaten like a dog, abused and cursed and driven mad, but I stayed just to be near you, even as a dog. And I'll stay 'til the end. I'll live and I'll die under this rock.
Cathy Heathcliff. Is he here?
Oh yes, he came back one night last week with great talk of lying in a lake of fire without you. How he had to see you to live. He's unbearable. I wonder where he could be, the scoundrel. Heathcliff? Heathcliff?
Cathy Heathcliff!
Why did you stay so long in that house?
Cathy Didn't expect to find you here?
Why did you stay so long?
Cathy Why? Because I was having a wonderful time. A delightful, fascinating, wonderful time. Among human beings. Go and wash your face and hands Heathcliff. And comb your hair so that I needn't be ashamed of you in front of a guest. [Edgar walks into the room and stands next to Cathy]
Heathcliff! What are you doing in this part of the house? Go and look after Mr. Linton's horses.
Let him look after his own.
Cathy Heathcliff! [She is restrained by Edgar]
Cathy Apologize to Mr. Linton at once. [Heathcliff walks out of the room without a word]
I simply cannot understand how your brother can allow that beast of a gypsy to have the run of the house.
Cathy Don't talk about him.
Cathy, how can you, a gentle-woman, tolerate him under your roof? A roadside beggar giving himself airs of equality. How can you?
Cathy What do you know about Heathcliff?
All I need or want to know.
Cathy He was my friend long before you.
Cathy Blackguard and all. He belongs under this roof and you speak well of him or get out.
Are you out of your senses?
Cathy Get out I said, or stop calling those I love names.
Cathy Yes! Yes!
Cathy, what possesses you? Do you realize the things you're saying?
Cathy I see that I hate you. I hate the look of your milk-white face, I hate the touch of your soft, foolish hands.
Some of that gypsy's evil soul has gone into you I think.
Cathy Yes, it's true!
So that beggar's dirt is on you?
Cathy Yes, yes! Now get out!
Cathy Forgive me, Heathcliff. Forgive me. Heathcliff. Make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change, and you and I never change.
The moors and I will never change. Don't you, Cathy.
Cathy I can't. I can't. No matter what I ever do or say Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me forever. Heathcliff, when you went away, what did you do? Where did you go?
I went to Liverpool. One night, I shipped for America on a brigantine going to New Orleans. We were held up by the tide and I lay all night long on the deck, thinking of you, and the years and years ahead without you. I jumped overboard and swam ashore.
Cathy I think I'd died if you hadn't.
Cathy, we're not thinking of that other world now.
Cathy Smell the heather. Heathcliff. [She stands and holds her arms outstretched] Fill my arms with heather. All they can hold. Come on.
Cathy. You're still my queen.
You're not gonna sit all evening, simpering in front of him again, listening to his silly talk.
Cathy Oh I'm not?
Cathy Well Heathcliff I am. It's much more entertaining than listening to a stable boy.
Cathy. Don't you talk like that.
Cathy I will. Go away. This is my room. It's a ladies room. Not a room for servants with dirty hands to come into with their insulting complaints. Now let me alone.
Yes. Yes. Tell the dirty stable boy to let go of you. He soiled your pretty dress. But who soiled your heart? Not Heathcliff. Who turns you into a vain, cheap, worldly fool? Linton does. You'll never love him, but you'll let yourself be loved because it pleases your stupid, greedy vanity. Loved by that milksop with buckles on his shoes...
Cathy Stop it. Stop it and get out. You had your chance to be something else. The people's servant were all you were born to be, a beggar in the center of the road, begging for favors, not earning them but whimpering for them with your dirty hands.
That's all I've become to you. A pair of dirty hands. Well, have them then. Have them where they belong! [He strikes her across the face with one hand, and then with the other] It doesn't help to strike you.
Well, if Master Edgar and his charms and money and parties mean Heaven to you, what's to keep you from taking your place among the Linton angels?
Cathy I don't think I belong in Heaven, Ellen. I dreamt once that I was there. I dreamt I went to Heaven, and that Heaven didn't seem to be my home. And I broke my heart with weeping to come back to Earth. And the angels were so angry they flung me out into the middle of the heap, on top of Wuthering Heights. And I woke up sobbing with joy. That's it, Ellen. I have no more business marrying Edgar Linton than I have of being in Heaven. But Ellen, Ellen, what can I do?
You're thinking of Heathcliff.
Cathy Who else? He's sunk so low. He seems to take pleasure in being mean and brutal. And yet, he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. And Linton's is as different as frost from fire...Ellen, I am Heathcliff. Everything he's suffered, I've suffered. The little happiness he's ever known I've had too. Oh Ellen, if everything in the world died and Heathcliff remained, life would still be full for me.
Well, what brought about this amazing transformation? Did you, uh, discover a gold mine in the New World, or perhaps you fell heir to a fortune?
The truth is, I remembered that my father was an Emperor of China and my mother was an Indian Queen. [He glances at Cathy, watching her reaction to their childhood make-believe] And I went out and claimed my inheritance. It all turns out just as you suspected Cathy - that I had been kidnapped by wicked sailors and brought to England, that I was of noble birth.
Cathy Are you visiting here long? I mean, in the village?
For the rest of my life. I've just bought Wuthering Heights - the house, the stock, and the moors.
You mean that Hindley has sold you the estate?
He's not aware of it as yet. I'm afraid it will be somewhat of a surprise to him when he finds out that his gambling debts and liquor bills were all paid up for him by his former stable boy. Or perhaps he will merely laugh at the irony of it, Mr. Linton.
Cathy Edgar and I have many neighbors whom we receive with hospitality and friendship. And if you are to be one of them, you're welcome to visit our house, but not with a scowl on your face or an old bitterness in your heart.
Thank you. It occurs to me that I have not congratulated you on your marriage. I've often thought of it. Allow me to express my delight over your happiness now.
Cathy You're very grand Heathcliff, so handsome. Looking at you tonight, I could not help but remember how things used to be.
Cathy Don't pretend life hasn't improved for you.
Life has ended for me. [A long pause] How can you stand here beside me and pretend not to remember? Not to know that my heart is breaking for you. That your face is the wonderful light burning in all this darkness.
Cathy Heathcliff no, I forbid it.
Do you forbid what your heart is saying to me now?
Cathy It's saying nothing.
It 'tis. I can hear the love of the music. Oh Cathy, Cathy.
Cathy I'm not the Cathy that was. Can you understand that? I'm somebody else. I'm another man's wife and he loves me. And I love him.
If he loved you with all the power of his soul for the whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day. Not he, not the world. Not even you Cathy can come between us.
Cathy Heathcliff, you must go away. You must leave this house and never come back to it. I never want to see your face again or listen to your voice again as long as I live.
You lie. I did come here tonight because you willed it. You willed me here to cross the sea.
Cathy [about his plan to marry Isabella and neglect her]
Oh Heathcliff, you must not do this...she hasn't harmed you.
Cathy Then punish me.
I'm going to. When I take her in my arms, when I kiss her, when I promise her life and happiness.
Cathy Oh Heathcliff, if there's anything human left in you, don't do this! Don't make me a partner to such a crime. It's stupid, it's mad!
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. Cathy, if your heart were only stronger than your dull fear of God and the world, I would live silently contented in your shadow. But no, you must destroy us both with that weakness you call virtue. You must keep me tormented with that cruelty you think so pious. You've been smug and pleased with my vile love of you, haven't you? Haven't you? Well, after this, you can think of me as something else than Cathy's foolish and despairing lover. You can think of me as Isabella's husband. And be glad for my happiness as I was for yours.
Cathy [on her deathbed]
Heathcliff. Come here.
Cathy I was dreaming that I wake up before I die, that you might come and scowl at me once more.
Cathy Oh, Heathcliff. Oh how strong you look. How many years do you mean to live after I'm gone? [They passionately hug and kiss each other, finally revealing their truest emotions to each other] Don't, don't let me go. If I could only hold you until we were both dead. Will you forget me when I'm in the earth?
I could as soon forget you with my own life, Cathy, if you die.
Cathy Boy, Heathcliff. Come. Let me feel how strong you are.
Strong enough to bring us both back to life, Cathy, if you want to live.
Cathy No, Heathcliff, I want to die.
Oh Cathy, why did you kill yourself?
Cathy Hold me. Just hold me.
Oh, and love comfort you. My tears don't love you, Cathy. They blight and curse and damn you!
Cathy Heathcliff, don't break my heart.
Oh Cathy, I never broke your heart. You broke it! Cathy! Cathy! You loved me! What right to throw love away for the poor fancy thing you felt for him, for a handful of worthiness. Misery and death and all the evils that God and man could have ever done would never have parted us. You'd be better alone. You wandered off like a wanton, greedy child to break your heart and mine.
Cathy Heathcliff, forgive me. We've so little time.
I won't go, Cathy. I'm here. I'll never leave you again.
Cathy I told you, Ellen. When you went away that night in the rain, I told you I belonged to him, that he was my life, my being.
Don't listen to her ravings.
Cathy It's true. It's true. I'm yours, Heathcliff. I've never been anyone else's.
She doesn't know what she's saying. You can still get out. Go before they get here.
Cathy Take me to the window. Let me look at the moors with you once more. My darling, once more. [Heathcliff carries her in his arms to the window] Heathcliff, can you see the Crag over there where our castle is? I'll wait for you 'til you come.
