[00:00.57] Chapter 5.
[00:03.54] Kathy and Edgar.
[00:06.80] Little Hareton had fallen asleep, and I put him to bed and began to make our supper.
[00:12.99] Hindley still lay dead to the world in the other room, and would lie like that until morning.
[00:18.94] Joseph came in from the barn and sat at the table with clasped hands, waiting to give a blessing on the food.
[00:26.90] He did this at all our meals, and lengthy blessings they were too.
[00:33.31] Many a plate of good hot food has gone cold while Joseph mumbled over it.
[00:42.46] We were waiting for Heathcliff, and I went out to call to him, thinking that he was most likely in the barn.
[00:49.88] There was no answer.
[00:52.92] I returned to the kitchen and whispered to Kathy that I thought he might have heard what she had said about her possible marriage to Edgar Linton, and how she thought that to marry Heathcliff would be degrading.
[01:09.33] Oh, what have I done?
[01:12.32] She cried on hearing this and began pacing the room.
[01:16.99] Oh, what can he have heard?
[01:19.44] Nelly, tell me what did I say?
[01:22.22] I can't remember.
[01:24.97] What a lot of mithering over nothing, grumbled Joseph, and slapping his hat on his head, he went out to look for Heathcliff himself.
[01:34.48] He came back wet and more bad tempered than ever.
[01:38.46] That lad gets worse, he said.
[01:42.73] He's left the yard gate open and one of the ponies has trodden down two rigs of corn.
[01:51.80] Did you find him, you old fool?
[01:54.08] Kathy snapped.
[01:56.54] I'd be better off looking for the horse, answered Joseph.
[02:00.80] As it is, I can look for neither man nor beast on a night like this.
[02:06.34] It was a very dark night for summer, sir, and thunder was threatening.
[02:12.47] I suggested that we begin our meal, and that the rain would surely drive Heathcliff in.
[02:19.16] But Kathy was too upset to eat.
[02:23.28] She paced the kitchen floor, and then took to wandering down to the gate and back.
[02:31.61] At last, she stayed by the road, and although I pleaded with her, nothing would persuade her to return to the warmth of the kitchen, even though the rain was beginning to fall in cold, heavy drops.
[02:46.64] At midnight, the storm broke over the heights.
[02:52.00] There was a strong wind, too.
[02:55.56] It brought down a tree which stood near the house and destroyed one of the chimney pots as it fell.
[03:03.64] We thought a bolt had crashed into our midst, and Joseph fell to his knees, pleading with a good lord to spare the righteous, meaning himself, of course, and to strike only the ungodly, meaning the rest of us.
[03:20.83] But the storm passed and left all of us unharmed, except for Kathy.
[03:28.19] She came in as wet as she could be, and flung herself down on the settle, her face turned to the back.
[03:36.94] Well, miss, I said, are you determined to get your death of cold?
[03:42.59] Come, let me rub your hair dry and then off to bed with you.
[03:47.38] Heathcliff will be in Gimmerton, and he'll probably stay the night.
[03:52.93] No, no, moan that old misery Joseph.
[03:57.87] He's more likely at the bottom of the bog.
[04:02.04] The bolts what brought down the tree were a sign from the Lord that we must mend our ways or go to everlasting damnation.
[04:13.58] So, having tried in vain to get Kathy to act sensibly, I left the two of them, one shivering and one preaching, and took myself to my own bed.
[04:27.43] Nelly laid her knitting down in her lap at this point and looked at me.
[04:32.91] And bed is where you should be, sir.
[04:36.96] But your story takes my mind off my aches and pains so wonderfully, Nelly, I told her in all truthfulness.
[04:45.19] It's much better than doctor's medicine.
[04:49.70] And so I coaxed her into going on with her tail.
[04:56.71] In the morning, I came down to the kitchen and threw open the window.
[05:01.99] How sweet everything smelled after the rain.
[05:06.45] But a moan from the settle made me turn, and there lay Kathy, pale and shivering.
[05:15.05] Hindley chose this moment to enter the kitchen.
[05:18.70] What ails her?
[05:20.45] he asked.
[05:22.80] I saw that he was now sober and in his right mind, and he was a different person then.
[05:29.56] Oh, she is naughty, I said.
[05:33.27] She got soaked in the storm last night, and I couldn't persuade her to go to bed.
[05:39.32] She's ill, said Hindley, laying his hand on her forehead.
[05:44.31] I suppose that's the reason she didn't go to bed.
[05:47.76] But what took you out, Kathy?
[05:51.83] Running after lads, as usual, croaked Joseph, who had also come in.
[05:58.12] Oh, never a day goes by when you're absent, master, but that Edgar Linton comes creeping to the house.
[06:07.77] He turned and nodded his head towards me.
[06:11.48] And her lets him in and watches out for your return.
[06:17.55] Be quiet, said Kathy, rousing herself a little.
[06:22.09] Edgar called yesterday, Hindley, quite by chance, and I myself told him to go, as I knew you would not like him to be here.
[06:30.71] Never mind Linton, said Hindley.
[06:34.63] Were you with Heathcliff?
[06:37.44] I will not have you roaming the Moors with that savage.
[06:42.82] If I find that you have been with him, I shall turn him out of doors, and he may fend for himself.
[06:51.10] I didn't see Heathcliff last night, said Kathy, beginning to sob bitterly.
[06:58.37] And if you do turn him out, I'll go with him.
[07:02.83] But you may not have the chance.
[07:06.06] I may never see him again.
[07:09.97] Put her to bed, Hindley told me.
[07:15.65] I half carried her up the stairs, and I shall never forget the scene when we reached her room.
[07:25.04] It terrified me.
[07:28.96] I thought that she was going mad, and I begged Joseph to bring the doctor.
[07:36.73] When he arrived, he said that Cathy was delirious and dangerously ill.
[07:43.58] She had a fever and must be carefully nursed.
[07:48.96] I am not a trained nurse, sir, but common sense came to my aid.
[07:55.89] I kept her as quiet as I could, and as she was strong, she began to mend.
[08:04.37] Edgar's mother, old Mrs. Linton, paid us many a visit, and when Kathy was strong enough, insisted that she come to Thrushcross Grange to recover fully.
[08:19.43] The poor lady had reason to be sorry for her kind act.
[08:24.86] Both she and her husband caught the fever and died within a few days of each other.
[08:34.36] Kathy returned to us more passionate and haughty than ever.
[08:40.26] Heathcliff had never been heard of since the night of the storm.
[08:46.20] And one day, when Kathy had been particularly annoying, I turned on her and told her that she was the cause of his going.
[08:56.97] For several months after that, she never spoke to me.
[09:02.65] The doctor had told Hindley that she must not be crossed, that if she was refused anything that she wanted, it could bring on a fit.
[09:13.56] And so, Hindley gave into her every whim.
[09:19.08] As for Edgar Linton, he believed himself to be the happiest man alive on the day he married Kathy in Gimmerton Chapel.
[09:31.49] Much against my will, I was persuaded to leave Wathering Heights and come to Thrushcross Grange.
[09:40.14] Little Hareton was now five years old, and I had just begun to teach him his letters.
[09:46.57] He cried bitterly when he learned that I was to leave him, but Kathy's tears were stronger.
[09:55.16] Edgar Linton offered me a magnificent wage.
[09:59.84] Hindley merely told me to pack my bag and leave.
[10:06.87] So I kissed Hareton goodbye, and since that day he has been a stranger to me.
[10:14.09] He no longer remembers Nelly Dean, and that he was once all the world to her.
[10:24.33] I got Miss Kathy and myself to Thrushcross Grange, and I was surprised and a little disappointed to find that she behaved beautifully.
[10:36.49] I had braced myself to cope with her tantrums, as I had done at Wathering Heights, and imagined that the rest of the household would admire me for my skill.
[10:50.07] But I did not get the chance to show off, for she was sweetness itself.
[10:57.35] Indeed, she seemed to be a little too fond of Edgar Linton, as well as showing much love and affection for his sister, Isabella.
[11:11.09] But I did notice that Edgar was frightened of putting her into a bad temper.
[11:19.28] Also, sir, she had days when she was very down.
[11:24.96] This was most unlike the old Kathy, whose spirits had always been high, even at the worst of times.
[11:34.53] In those days, she would overcome any unhappiness or sorrow or ill treatment.
[11:41.33] But then, of course, she always had Heathcliff by her side.
[11:48.95] However, in spite of Kathy's dark moods and Edgar's fear of her temper, I thought that the two of them had a deep and growing happiness.
[12:01.83] It ended.
[12:04.78] One soft evening in September, as I was coming from the garden with a basket of apples, I heard a voice behind me say, Nelly, is that you?
[12:18.31] It was a deep voice with a foreign tone, but there was something about the way it said my name.
[12:25.81] Moving closer to the porch, I saw a tall man dressed in dark clothes and with a dark face and hair.
[12:33.47] You don't know me?
[12:36.53] he said, "I'm not a stranger."
[12:41.88] Look.
[12:43.87] He moved closer to the porch light and I cried, "What?
[12:48.88] Is it you?"
[12:51.66] Yes, he said.
[12:53.71] It's Heathcliff.
[12:56.98] Where is she, Nelly?
[12:59.70] Go and tell her that a person from Gimmerton wishes to speak to her.
[13:05.90] How will she take it?
[13:08.13] I exclaimed.
[13:10.16] What will she do?
[13:12.85] The surprise bewilders me.
[13:16.42] It will turn Miss Kathy's head.
[13:19.13] Do it!
[13:21.58] He said roughly.
[13:25.60] I couldn't say no to him, for I was afraid that if I did, he would simply enter the house and find her for himself.
[13:34.42] I went to the parlor where Kathy and Edgar sat.
[13:38.79] A person from Gimmerton wishes to see you, ma'am, I said.
[13:45.29] What does he want?
[13:47.25] she asked.
[13:48.84] I didn't question him, I told her.
[13:53.03] She left the room, and Edgar inquired who the caller was.
[13:58.25] Someone the mistress doesn't expect, I told him.
[14:04.52] It's Heathcliff.
[14:07.59] Do you remember him, sir?
[14:10.64] He used to live at Wathering Heights.
[14:14.00] What, the Gypsy, the plow boy?
[14:18.77] cried Edgar.
[14:20.84] Hush!
[14:22.64] I told him, you mustn't call him by those names.
[14:27.22] She was heartbroken when he ran off.
[14:32.01] He went to the window and flung it open.
[14:36.08] Don't keep the visitor standing there, my love, he called down to her.
[14:42.29] A moment later, she burst into the room and flung her arms round Edgar's neck.
[14:50.05] Oh darling, she cried.
[14:53.57] Heathcliff's back, he is.
[14:58.18] And she hugged him harder than ever.
[15:02.86] Well, don't strangle me for it, said Edgar.
[15:07.62] There's no need to be so frantic.
[15:10.60] He never struck me as being such a treasure.
[15:15.34] I know you don't like him, she answered, but for my sake, you must be friends.
[15:23.58] Shall I tell him to come up?
[15:26.70] Here, said Edgar, in the parlor.
[15:33.59] Oh, set a table for us in the kitchen, Nelly, said my mistress.
[15:39.10] Heathcliff and I are too lowly for the gentle folk in this room.
[15:45.45] Her temper was flaring, I could see, and so could Edgar.
[15:50.91] Tell him to come up, Nelly, he said.
[15:53.60] And Katherine, try to be glad without being ridiculous.
[15:59.90] The whole household needn't see you welcoming home a servant as though he were a brother.
[16:10.03] I went down to where Heathcliff waited on the porch and led him to the parlor.
[16:16.18] He entered the room, and when I saw him clearly, I was more amazed than ever at the change in him.
[16:23.73] He had grown into a tall, well-built man.
[16:29.61] Standing beside him, Edgar Linton looked slender, almost still a boy.
[16:36.77] My master's surprise was as great as mine, and he hardly knew how to behave towards someone whom he had thought of as a Gypsy or a rough farm hand.
[16:50.15] He sat a little apart from the two, who sat so close.
[16:56.89] I took my time in pouring their tea and arranging little cakes and biscuits on a plate, and so was able to hear what was said.
[17:07.39] I heard of your marriage soon after I returned, Heathcliff told Kathy.
[17:13.66] I meant to just have a glimpse of you, to return to Wathering Heights, have my revenge on Hindley, and then leave at once before the law had its way with me.
[17:24.71] But when I saw you, Heathcliff went on, that plan vanished entirely from my mind, and I now have another.
[17:38.59] I heard no more, for Edgar called to me, Nelly, are you may go to the kitchen now.
[17:46.99] And I left the room.
[17:50.43] When the visit ended, I saw Heathcliff to the front door.
[17:55.89] You'll be staying in Gimmerton, I suppose, I said.
[17:59.85] No, at Wathering Heights, he replied.
[18:05.18] Mr. Earnshaw invited me when I called there this morning.
[18:12.01] I closed the door on him with feelings of amazement.
[18:17.79] Hindley invited him, and he called on Hindley.
[18:27.86] But now, sir, said Nelly with a firm tone to her voice, you must have some sleep.
[18:37.31] I think, Nelly, I said as she gathered up my supper things, that you are a true storyteller and like to leave your listener on the edge of his seat and eager for more.
[18:52.13] But she just smiled at this and left the room.