Wuthering Heights (2009)

Charlotte Riley: Cathy

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• Heathcliff : Going somewhere?

  Cathy : Where would I go, my love? It's raining.

  Heathcliff : Yet you have that silk frock on, my love.

  Heathcliff : Someone coming here, perhaps?

  Cathy : Perhaps.

  Heathcliff : Edgar Linton?

  Cathy : [freeing her head from Nellie's fussing hands]  I said enough, Nellie... Let me alone!

  Heathcliff : [slowly walking towards Cathy]  Three months ago we lay together yet since then every evening is spent with the Lintons!

  Cathy : Perhaps I find Edgar easier company. Perhaps he doesn't talk of curses and fall into a brooding silence.

  Heathcliff : So you dislike my company?

  Cathy : It's no company at all when people know nothing and say nothing.

  Heathcliff : [hurt, and giving away as much]  Yeah... There. At last you said that I am no longer worthy of you.

  Heathcliff : [bitterly]  I say, may you suffer for this.

  Cathy : [holding back tears]  So I am cursed too, am I?

  Heathcliff : No, I am the one that is truly cursed. I was cursed the moment I laid eyes on you.

• Cathy : Perhaps your fortune has changed you.

  Heathcliff : Oh, my fortune has changed me in every regard. Except one. And if I could change that too, I would do so.

• Cathy : Why are you refusing to see me?

  Heathcliff : Cause I don't know you. Hindley's right, that little savage is lost and it was her that I loved.

  Cathy : I know you. And I love you.

  Heathcliff : In the way a mistress loves a servant?

  Cathy : No.

  Heathcliff : Come away with me then, as we planned. There.

  [points to her face] 

  Heathcliff : It's your pause that betrays you.

  Cathy : I'm frightened.

  Heathcliff : Of what? Of me? Or poverty?

  Cathy : You're asking me to risk my reputation. Once a woman's reputation is gone she has nothing.

  Heathcliff : [incredulous]  The old Cathy would never have said such a thing.

  Cathy : The old Cathy didn't know the world and how it regarded...

  Heathcliff : [grabs Cathy, interrupting her]  I tried to leave you. Your love holds me here. Now if you mean to be indifferent to me as least do me the favor of releasing me.

• Cathy : We cannot escape each other. We cannot.

• Cathy : [contemplative, facing the fireplace, upon hearing someone walk in]  If that's you, Nellie, then I am sorry for scolding you. I wish now that you had stayed.

  Heathcliff : [walking up to Cathy]  It is not Nellie, it is I.

  [while Cathy still refuses to look into his eyes] 

  Heathcliff : Why, Cathy, what is it? What's the matter?

  Cathy : [finally looking up and at him, solemnly]  Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him.

  Heathcliff : [searching Cathy's eyes]  And, have you given him your answer?

  [Cathy nods negatively] 

  Heathcliff : But you did not say no!

  [Cathy nods negatively, again] 

  Heathcliff : And have you considered how you will bear the separation from me, and how I would be quite deserted in the world without you?

  [pauses for a moment] 

  Heathcliff : Did you consider that?

  Cathy : You quite deserted! We separated! Who is to separate us, pray?

  Heathcliff : [stressing his each word]  You would be Mrs. Linton.

  Cathy : Yes. As Mrs. Linton I can aid you to rise and place you out of my brother's power.

  Heathcliff : [with controlled indignation]  With your husband's money you'll rescue me...

  [walking away from Cathy towards the door, and then turning back] 

  Heathcliff : Do you think I can endure such a thing?

  [Cathy rushes to Heathcliff, attempts to kiss him] 

  Heathcliff : [holding Cathy back, accentuating each word, with loathing]  You will be Mrs. Linton.

• Heathcliff : What's that? There's a look in your eyes. My God, I think it's guilt. You've been with him, haven't you? You've laid with Edgar, haven't you?

  Cathy : He's my husband.

  Heathcliff : As if your pretend marriage matters to me? How am I to look at you? How am I to touch you now that his milky feeble hands have held you as I'm holding you now, you disgust me.

• Cathy : [watches a smiling Heathcliff enter]  Do not smile, my love...

  Heathcliff : If I tell you why I am smiling, I think you will smile too.

  Cathy : [almost whispering]  Tell me...

  Heathcliff : As Hindley was flogging me, I chanted a curse you know... He has lost the only person who ever loved him.

  Cathy : [aghast]  You cannot welcome the death of a baby's mother!

  Heathcliff : I will welcome anything that makes Hindley suffer.

  Cathy : [quietly commands Heathcliff]  Say you're sorry for talking like this my love...

  Heathcliff : [shrugging]  I am not sorry.

  Cathy : [sadly]  Sometimes I think your true passion is hate rather than love.