[00:01.86] Chapter 6.
[00:02.68] Heathcliff.
[00:05.19] All the next day, I thought about Heathcliff and Kathy, and wondered how it came about that Heton, Hindley's own son, was now a lowly farm hand at Whering Heights.
[00:19.21] I wondered too how it was that the house now belonged to Heathcliff.
[00:25.75] When evening came, I rang the bell for Nelly, my supper, and I hoped the answer to these teasing questions.
[00:34.69] Nelly took up her story at once.
[00:43.10] I was awakened in the night by Kathy coming to my room.
[00:49.21] I can't rest, Nelly, she said.
[00:52.68] I must have another living creature near to share my happiness.
[01:00.35] Edgar is sulking because I praised Heathcliff and said how well he seems to have done.
[01:10.41] What use is it to praise Heathcliff to him? I asked.
[01:15.65] They didn't like each other as boys, so it's unlikely that they'll strike up a friendship now.
[01:25.12] But it's so silly and childish to be jealous, she said, curling up at the foot of my bed.
[01:36.39] I couldn't resist asking her, "What do you think of Heathcliff visiting Whering Heights?"
[01:45.25] Oh, he explained all that to me, said Kathy.
[01:49.66] He called there just to get news of me, but found there was a card game in progress and joined it.
[01:59.17] It seems that he won a great deal of money from my brother, and Hindley asked him back.
[02:07.88] Heathcliff returned and won again.
[02:12.92] Then he offered to pay a high price to be allowed to lodge there.
[02:18.90] My brother, being what he is, agreed.
[02:24.78] So what he gets from Heathcliff in rent, he gives back to him in card games.
[02:34.92] And he'll lose more than the rent of his rooms, I thought to myself.
[02:40.56] Understanding now in what way Heathcliff meant to get his revenge for all the childhood beatings he had suffered, and all his ill treatment as a young man.
[02:57.33] You should be more careful of your husband's feelings, I told Kathy.
[03:02.95] But she just laughed and said, "I can't put up with such childishness," and went her own way, as always.
[03:16.58] So Heathcliff visited Thrush Cross Grange often, and he and Kathy were together in a private world of their own, just as they had been as children.
[03:28.48] Edgar Linton didn't like this, but was still afraid of crossing Kathy.
[03:37.78] He wasn't alone in his unhappiness.
[03:42.53] We, that is the other servants and myself, had noticed that Miss Isabella was fretting and pining over something.
[03:53.73] The cause was supposed to be ill health, for indeed she was fading before our eyes.
[04:00.98] But, one morning over breakfast, she accused Kathy of treating her harshly.
[04:14.97] How have I been harsh? asked Kathy.
[04:18.64] Tell me.
[04:22.98] On our walk on the more yesterday, said Isabella, you told me to go where I pleased while you went on with Mr. Heathcliff.
[04:36.09] And that's your idea of being harsh, laughed Kathy.
[04:41.70] That wasn't because your company wasn't wanted, it was because I didn't think that anything Heathcliff might say would have any interest for you.
[04:53.41] No, wept Isabella.
[04:57.46] You wanted me to go away because you knew that I wanted to be there.
[05:05.57] Is she sane? asked Kathy, looking at me.
[05:11.60] Then she turned back to Isabella.
[05:15.35] I'll repeat our conversation word for word, and you can point out what charms it might have held for you.
[05:26.62] It wasn't the conversation, said Isabella.
[05:31.36] I wanted to be with him, and I won't always be sent away.
[05:37.59] You're a dog in the manger, Kathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself.
[05:45.71] I'll not believe this idiocy, cried Kathy.
[05:50.94] Is it possible that you want Heathcliff to admire you, that you think him a good person?
[06:00.16] I hope that I've misunderstood you, Isabella.
[06:05.32] No, you haven't, said Isabella.
[06:09.85] I love him more than you love Edgar, and he would love me if only you'd let him.
[06:20.48] Then I wouldn't be you for a kingdom, said Kathy.
[06:26.93] Nelly, tell her what Heathcliff is.
[06:32.08] A fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.
[06:38.24] He'd crush you like a sparrow's egg, Isabella, if he found you troublesome.
[06:47.47] He couldn't love a Linton, I know, but he'd marry you for your money.
[07:00.13] Isabella ran from the room in tears.
[07:05.39] A little later I followed and found her weeping on her bed.
[07:12.26] Banish him from your thoughts, miss, I told her.
[07:19.33] Kathy spoke strongly, but she knows him better than anyone.
[07:25.41] Ask yourself, how has he been living?
[07:32.88] How has he become rich?
[07:37.51] Why is he living at Whering Heights with a man he hates and has hated for years?
[07:48.34] She took no heed of my advice, nor did she mend her quarrel with Kathy.
[07:57.71] On the third day, the master was called away on business, and as the two sat in icy silence, Heathcliff paid a call.
[08:07.96] I was brushing the hearth at the time, and saw the mischievous smile on Kathy's lips when she heard his name announced.
[08:19.52] Heathcliff, she cried as he entered the room.
[08:25.08] Here are two people sadly in need of a third to thaw the ice between them, and you are the one whom we both would have chosen.
[08:36.69] Let me show you someone who loves you better than I do.
[08:43.21] My poor little sister-in-law is breaking her heart at the mere sight of your beauty.
[08:53.66] Isabella jumped up at this and would have left the room, but Kathy held her back, catching at her skirt and tugging it in a way that was meant to seem playful, but that I knew was not.
[09:10.06] We have been quarreling like cats about you, Heathcliff, said Kathy, and I have been told by my rival that if I had the good manners to stand aside, you would love her more than anything in the world.
[09:29.40] Catherine, I said nothing of the kind, cried Isabella.
[09:39.98] Heathcliff remained silent and just stared at her, as though she was some strange, repulsive insect.
[09:51.59] The poor thing couldn't bear that.
[09:56.82] After trying in vain to pull her skirt free, she ran her fingernails down the back of Kathy's hand.
[10:05.82] What a tigress, said Kathy, letting Isabella go.
[10:12.62] How foolish to show those talons to him.
[10:17.77] Look, Heathcliff, beware of your eyes if she comes close.
[10:23.97] I'd wrench them off her fingers if they ever threatened me, he said.
[10:32.32] With that, they both seemed to dismiss the matter from their minds.
[10:37.69] But there had been something in Heathcliff's manner that made me decide to keep a close watch on him, and on Isabella too.
[10:48.60] His visits to the Grange were a nightmare to all, save Kathy, and I worried constantly about his living at Whering Heights.
[11:00.30] It seemed to me, sir, that God had forsaken that stray sheep Hindley, to its own wicked and foolish ways.
[11:12.03] And that an evil beast prowl between it and the fold, waiting its time to spring and destroy.