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Emily Bronte adapted.

1. Wuthering Heights. Ch 9

Adapted by Rebecca. 2014

excerpt

Catherine implores Nellie to hear her secret.

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NELLY! With your husband’s money Miss Catherine? You’ll not find Heathcliff so compliant as you imagine, and that’s the worst motive you’ve given yet for being the wife of young Linton.! ! CATHERINE! No, it’s the best! The others were for my own satisfaction, but this is for Heathcliff’s sake. He knows how I feel toward Edgar. Surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours that stretched beyond you. What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff’s miseries; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained and he were annihilated, the universe would turn into a mighty stranger; I would not be a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath; a source of little visible delight, but necessary.! Nelly, I am Heathcliff!! He’s always, always in my mind; not as a pleasure any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. So do not speak of our separation again!! !! NELLY! [scoldingly]! You are a wicked unprincipled girl Miss, and ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying! Do not trouble me with any more secrets; I’ll not promise to keep them!! ! !  CATHERINE! [eagerly]! But you’ll keep that?! ! NELLY! [matter-of-fact]! There is no need for me to keep it. Heathcliff was here-! !! CATHERINE! [interrupting, alarmed]! When, where?!! ! September 2014  7 Rebecca Lennie 13FPP: AS91497 Write a Film Script NELLY! [continues calmly]! -just now, in the next room, and he heard almost everything you said. He left just after you said that it would degrade you to marry him.! ! !  Catherine wheels her head around towards doorway, as though to make after Heathcliff.! ! !!  END OF SCENE