Ellen She calls him, and he follows her out to the moor.
Lockwood Oh, he's mad. He's like a madman. He seized me by the collar and dragged me out. You see, I had a dream. I thought I heard a voice calling. I reached out to close the shutter and something touched me, something cold and clinging like an icy hand. And then I saw her, a woman, but then my senses must have become disordered, because the falling snow shaped itself into what looked like a phantom...
Ellen It was Cathy.
Lockwood Who is Cathy?
Ellen A girl who died.
Lockwood [startled]
Oh no, I don't believe in ghosts. I don't believe in phantoms sobbing through the night.
Ellen Poor Cathy.
Lockwood I don't believe that life comes back, once it's died, and calls again to the living. No, I don't.
Ellen Maybe if I told you a story, you'd change your mind about the dead coming back. Maybe you'd know, as I do, that there is a force that brings them back, if their hearts were wild enough in life.
Ellen 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?
Why did you stay so long in that house?
Didn't expect to find you here?
Why did you stay so long?
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]
Ellen 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.
Heathcliff! [She is restrained by Edgar]
Apologize to Mr. Linton at once. [Heathcliff walks out of the room without a word]
Ellen 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?
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?
Ellen You're thinking of Heathcliff.
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.
[on her deathbed]
Heathcliff. Come here.
I was dreaming that I wake up before I die, that you might come and scowl at me once more.
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.
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.
No, Heathcliff, I want to die.
Oh Cathy, why did you kill yourself?
Oh, and love comfort you. My tears don't love you, Cathy. They blight and curse and damn you!
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.
Heathcliff, forgive me. We've so little time.
I won't go, Cathy. I'm here. I'll never leave you again.
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.
Ellen Don't listen to her ravings.
It's true. It's true. I'm yours, Heathcliff. I've never been anyone else's.
Ellen She doesn't know what she's saying. You can still get out. Go before they get here.
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.
Ellen Oh my wild heart! Miss Cathy. She's gone! She's gone!
Dr. Kenneth You've done your last black deed, Heathcliff. Leave this house.
She's at peace now, in Heaven beyond us.
What do they know of Heaven or Hell, Cathy, who know nothing of life? Oh, they're praying for you, Cathy. I'll pray one prayer with them - I repeat 'til my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest so long as I live on! I killed you. Haunt me, then! Haunt your murderer! I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul!
Ellen I can still see and hear that wild hour, with poor Heathcliff trying to tear away the veil between death and life, crying out to Cathy's soul to haunt him and torment him 'til he died.
Lockwood You say that was Cathy's ghost I heard at the window?
Ellen Not a ghost, but Cathy's love, stronger than time itself, still sobbing for its unlived days and uneaten bread.
