Scena tratta dal film "Whutering Heights" del 1992 con Juliette Binoche e Ralph Fiennes.
Catherine: «Nelly?»
Nelly: «Oh, Cathy! I thought you were Frances, risen from the dead.»
Catherine: «Nelly, will you keep a secret for me?»
Nelly: «Oh, is it worth keeping?»
Catherine: «Today, Edgar Linton asked me to marry him.»
Nelly: «Oh, well..»
Catherine: «How shouId I answer?»
Nelly: «Well, really, Miss Cathy, how shouId I know?»
Catherine: «I accepted him.»
Nelly: «Cathy...Do you Iove Mr. Edgar?»
Catherine: «Um, of course I do. Of course! I can't heIp it.»
Nelly: «Why do you Iove him, Cathy?»
Catherine: «Uh, because he's handsome and pIeasant to be with.»
Nelly: «Bad.»
Catherine: «Because, um... he's young and cheerfuI.»
Nelly: «Bad still.»
Catherine: «And because he'll be rich. And I shall be the greatest woman of the neighborhood.»
Nelly: «Cathy.. Is that what you really want? Well, marry Mr. Edgar then.Where's your obstacIe?»
Catherine: «Here. In my souI and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong. And if my brother had not put Heathcliff so Iow, I shouIdn't have thought of it. It wouId degrade me to marry Heathcliff now. So he... he'll never know I Iove him. My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries. And I watched and feIt each from the beginning. My Iove for Linton is like.. like foliage in the woods. Time will change it as winter changes the trees. I Iove Heathcliff. He's the... He's like the... eternaI rocks beneath. A... A source of literaI, visibIe delight... but necessary. Nelly... I am Heathcliff.»
Nelly: «Shh.. »
Catherine: «Why?»
Nelly: «It's Joseph and Heathcliff might be with him. In fact, I'm not sure he wasn't here earlier.»
Joseph: «Young deviI of a gypsy gets worse and worse. He's Ieft the gate open and took off across the moors.»
Catherine: «No.Go and Iook for him. Call him back.»
Joseph: «What??»
Catherine: «Now, go after him. Do you think he heard?»
Nelly: «I think he heard something.»
Catherine: «What? What did I say?»
Nelly: «I think he heard up untiI the bit where you said it wouId degrade you to marry him.»
Catherine: «Oh.. Heathcliff..»
Nelly: «Cathy!»
Catherine: «Heathcliff..»
Nelly: «PIease, come in, Miss Cathy..»
