Wuthering Heights Page #7

- I demand it!

And if I choose to

remain friends with him?

Then I shall ask you

to leave this house.

May I speak?

To chastise me for my weakness?

To mock me for my kindness?

If you hear me out and

you still want me to leave,

then I shall relinquish

any claim I have on you.

Very well.

If you cast me out, you shall cast out both

your wife and child. I am with child, Edgar.

I'm with child.

- I came to you.

- So I see.

Though after your brother's

threats and entreaties,

I had rather you didn't.

He has, after all, threatened my life.

Cathy is with child.

You are lying.

Has Edgar put you up to this?

Sir,

any loyalty I feel in

this is entirely to you.

That is why I have come

here to tell you this.

Even though he warned me

that if I was insane enough

to encourage what he

calls my worthless suitor,

he will dissolve all bonds of

relationship between him and me.

Yet, as you see, I am here.

Feed and water the

horses then bed them down.

My bride and I shall be

staying here for the night.

Could you...? My fastenings.

Thank you.

Don't look at me.

Don't look at me.

She's gone.

Isabella has gone. She has

run off with Mr Heathcliff!

This is not true. It cannot be.

The lad who fetches the milk told me they

were spotted two miles out of Gimmerton.

And I have checked her room

and her bed is not slept in

so they have a day's start!

How will you catch up with them?

She went of her own accord. She

had a right to go if she pleased.

No, master. She is bewitched!

Hereafter she is only my sister

in name, not because I disown her,

but because she has disowned me.

And who shall tell the

mistress of this turn of events?

No-one.

Since Isabella is no longer

a member of her family,

she needn't be troubled by news of her.

Yes, sir.

- You are deceiving me!

- Shush, mistress.

I promised the Master

I would not tell you.

I thought it might help

you to accept your new life

- if you knew what Heathcliff

- If I knew what?

That Heathcliff has betrayed me? That

he has put a knife through my heart?

- Give over that talk!

- Stop that! Miss Cathy.

Mistress!

Get off me!

Just stop that!

Please, my love.

Please.

It's all right, my love. It's all right.

You were dreaming.

Stay with me, Nelly.

If only I were in my

own bed in the old house.

And that wind rattling

against the lattice.

Do let me feel it.

It comes straight down

the moor. Let me...

Let me have one breath!

When will Heathcliff return?

I do not know.

If he felt anything for you he

would never return and let you be.

Now try and put him out of your mind.

I cannot, Nelly.

I cannot.

He will not let me.

Where are we going?

Although it may not

appear to be the case,

I have tried over these past four

months to make myself love you

but I cannot.

What is preventing such

a thing from happening?

- I think you know.

- Nevertheless,

I would like to hear you say her name.

Your eyes detestably

resemble your brother's...

a dove's eyes, an angel's eyes.

So I cannot bear to look at

them without wishing you ill.

I abandoned my elegancies, my comforts

and my friends of my former home

to marry you.

You married me under a delusion.

Then you shall let me go

home to the Grange, sir.

You shall go home

but not to the Grange. The

Heights will be your home

and I will not have you

disgracing me by rambling abroad.

I cannot allow that.

Surely in your heart you feel some pity.

I have no pity.

I have no pity.

Joseph! Joseph!

Where are you? Damn you.

Is he come back then?

I thought he had gone for good.

We came just now.

But he left me and as I

don't know where he is...

Be sure to lock your door.

I cannot resist going up

there with this every night

and trying his door.

If once I find it open,

he's done for!

What is it?

I am tired after my journey.

I will show you to your room.

- My room?

- I sleep in here.

What news is there of Cathy?

Mrs Linton has not been well.

She'll never be like she

was, but her life is spared.

If you really have a regard for her,

you'll shun crossing her way again.

I must exact from you a promise that

you'll get me an interview with her.

I say you must not.

And you never shall through

my means. She is too weak.

Consent or refuse, I will see her!

You know as well as I do

for every thought she spends on

Edgar, she spends a thousand on me.

And if I thought it were otherwise,

two words would comprehend my future...

death and hell.

Do not persist in this, sir,

or I shall be obliged

to inform my master

and he shall take measures

to secure his house.

- Who did you see today,

Nelly? - No-one in particular.

Joseph at church, of course,

outpraying the Bishop as usual.

You're lying to me, aren't you?

You have too much imagination

and I have too little.

I cannot make sense of you some days.

I know he is back.

I can feel him close, so there

is no use in trying to deceive me.

Why am I so changed?

Well, you eat so little and you will

not drink and you've made yourself weak.

I wish I were outdoors.

I wish I were a girl again...

- half savage, hardy and free.

- Come, come.

You are a young woman. You are going to

bring a new young life into the world.

You are blessed, if

only you could see it.

Open the window wide again.

Open it.

I will not give you a death of cold.

I'm not helpless yet. I'll do it myself.

Heathcliff!

Heath...Heathcliff.

Heathcliff.

Come on, she was seen out there, sir.

I think she will have

headed up to the crags, sir!

If we waste time going

there and you are wrong...

It is where she went as a child.

It was a favourite place for...

For both of them.

Cathy!

Cathy!

My love!

Cathy!

My love!

Cathy! Cathy!

- Cathy!

- I see no sign of she, sir.

Cathy!

Cathy!

Cathy!

Oh, Cathy.

My love.

Am I come home?

Yes.

Yes, you are home. We are home.

And we will wander these

moors for all eternity.

I thought you had forgotten me.

You know that I could as soon forget you

as my own existence.

And what of Edgar and...

There is no Edgar.

There is no Hindley.

There is just you and I.

Just you and I.

Cathy!

She is here.

Damn you. She is here!

The pneumonia has a grip on her lungs.

She has neither the constitution

nor, it seems, the will to recover.

Hell, is that all you can say?

Is there nothing you can do?

It'll be a miracle if I can keep

her alive until she's gone full term.

I believe if the child is not

born tonight, neither will survive.

Dear, sweet Edgar.

Why could you not love someone

worthy of your affection

and gentleness?

You know our child will be

loved and cherished, do you not?

But not too tame.

Our child shall wander

the moors and be free

as any child must with your

blood running through their veins.

When I was a child,

my father went on a trip.

And he asked me and my sister

what presents we would like.

I chose a fiddle.

And my sister, already a good rider,

asked for a new whip.

But when he returned he did not

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