[00:00.88]Chapter eight.
[00:02.38]Kathy's illness.
[00:05.66]For three days, Isabella moped in the garden, always in tears.
[00:12.28]And my master stayed in the library with books that he didn't read.
[00:18.27]He was very unhappy about Kathy, but pride wouldn't let him make the first move.
[00:27.45]I thought that he did the right thing, for she was far too fond of having her own way.
[00:38.11]On the third day after Heathcliff's visit, she unbarred her door and asked for some water.
[00:47.16]I took her some tea and dry toast, and she ate and drank eagerly.
[00:55.63]What is that unfeeling creature doing?
[00:59.31]She asked, pushing her tangled hair away from her wasted face.
[01:08.34]If you mean Mr. Linton, I said, I think he's well.
[01:14.61]He spends a great deal of time with his books.
[01:19.66]With his books?
[01:21.54]She cried.
[01:24.60]And I am dying.
[01:29.43]She couldn't bear the thought I had put into her head, that her husband sat happily reading.
[01:40.29]But I wouldn't have led her to believe that my master didn't care, had I known her true condition.
[01:50.96]She tossed and turned feverishly, and then tore at her pillow with her teeth.
[01:57.65]Open the window, Nelly, she said, I am so hot.
[02:04.74]We were in the middle of winter, sir, and a cold wind blew straight from the Moors.
[02:13.18]I left the pane open for a few seconds, then closed it again.
[02:19.41]She seemed not to notice but lay back, plucking feathers from the tear in her pillow.
[02:27.87]That's a turkey's, she murmured to herself.
[02:32.81]That's a wild duck's, and this is a pigeon's.
[02:41.97]Give over with that baby work, I said, lie down and close your eyes.
[02:49.53]But I couldn't make her rest.
[02:53.99]Do you see that face?
[02:58.18]She asked, staring at her own face in the mirror that hung on the wall.
[03:07.16]Why, it's you, Kathy, I told her.
[03:12.12]But she just shuddered and cried that the room was haunted.
[03:18.51]I covered the glass with my shawl, now alarmed at the change that had come over her.
[03:27.38]I was about to leave the room to fetch my master when I was brought back by a shrieking cry.
[03:36.96]The shawl had slipped, and she sat upright staring at her face again.
[03:44.64]I covered the mirror once more, and she lay back and became calmer.
[03:53.16]Oh, Nelly, she said, I thought that I was in my old bedroom at Wathering Heights.
[04:05.63]How I wish that I was there, with the sound of the wind in the trees.
[04:13.26]Do let me feel it.
[04:15.82]Do let me have one breath, quick.
[04:20.33]Why don't you move?
[04:24.84]Because I don't want to give you your death of cold, I said.
[04:33.47]You won't give me a chance of life, you mean, she said.
[04:40.78]I'm not helpless.
[04:43.89]I'll open it myself.
[04:49.12]She slid from the bed and walked very uncertainly to the window, threw it open and lent out.
[04:58.63]The frosty air blew in, cutting like a knife.
[05:04.15]As I struggled to get her back into bed, her strength was much greater than mine, for she really was delirious.
[05:14.65]I heard the doorknob turn, and Mr. Linton came into the room.
[05:21.01]Catherine!
[05:23.58]He cried, and tried to pull her away from the window.
[05:28.84]She turned on him in a fury.
[05:34.98]Oh, there you are, she said.
[05:42.76]You are one of those things that are there when least wanted, and when wanted, never.
[05:56.16]What is she talking about?
[05:59.39]asked my master, still struggling with Kathy.
[06:05.43]Her mind wanders, sir, I told him.
[06:09.30]Just let's make her quiet and peaceful and she'll be all right.
[06:15.73]I want no more advice from you, Nelly, he replied.
[06:20.66]You knew what she was like, and yet you encouraged me to leave her alone.
[06:27.52]You didn't give me one hint of how she's been these last few days.
[06:35.61]Well, Mr. Lockwood, I began to defend myself, for I thought it wrong that I should be blamed for another's wicked ways.
[06:50.48]I know that Kathy is headstrong, I cried, but I didn't know that you wish to give into her fierce temper.
[06:59.70]I didn't know that I ought to have turned a blind eye to what went on between her and Heathcliff.
[07:08.70]Well, I'll know better next time.
[07:13.23]Next time you may find things out for yourself.
[07:21.96]Kathy had laid quiet in my master's arms during my speech, but now she began to struggle again.
[07:31.21]Traitor, witch, she screamed and spat at me.
[07:39.95]Leaving him to manage her as best he could, I set out to find Dr. Kenneth.
[07:48.20]As I hurried through the garden, I caught a glimpse of Isabella's Spaniel Fanny, wandering round the shrubbery.
[08:00.06]And thought it strange that the little animal shouldn't be out alone at that time of night.
[08:09.23]I also thought that I heard the sound of a galloping horse.
[08:15.95]But there were more pressing things on my mind.
[08:20.96]I ran on, and was lucky enough to catch Kenneth leaving the house of a patient in the village.
[08:29.73]As soon as he heard of Kathy's illness, he agreed at once to come back with me.
[08:38.77]While we made our way, I told him what had happened, how the fit had been brought on by my master, forbidding Heathcliff to visit the Grange.
[08:51.18]How my master had even struck him.
[08:57.05]I told Linton to be careful, said Kenneth.
[09:02.15]I told him that she mustn't be crossed.
[09:07.46]This madness, Nelly, is the consequence.
[09:15.84]But I thought that he had become a friend to Heathcliff.
[09:22.90]He put up with him for the sake of Kathy, I told him.
[09:29.78]But then Heathcliff turned his attentions to Miss Isabella, and that caused the fight.
[09:38.95]She's a sly one, is Isabella, said Kenneth, but also a little fool.
[09:49.08]I have it from a reliable source that she and Heathcliff were walking in the Grange Garden late last night, and that he tried to persuade her to go with him there and then.
[10:03.10]He only left after she had promised to run away with him on their very next meeting.
[10:12.37]At this, I recalled the sight of the little Spaniel wandering forlorn in the garden.
[10:20.96]I remembered too the distant sound of horses' hooves.
[10:26.85]Filled with forboding, I ran ahead of Kenneth, and on reaching the Grange went straight to Isabella's room.
[10:35.82]It was empty.
[10:41.51]I decided I shouldn't tell my master what had happened, as his mind was so filled with worry over Kathy.
[10:52.63]The news will keep until morning, I thought, for even if he had sent out servants to find the pair, they would, by now, be far out of sight.
[11:08.46]Kenneth arrived soon after.
[11:12.66]On examining Kathy, he said that there was no danger of her dying, but that her brain might be damaged by the fever.
[11:25.73]There was no sleep for either my master or myself that night.
[11:33.29]In the morning, I was spared the task of telling Edgar about Isabella.
[11:42.04]One of the maids, a thoughtless girl who had been on an early morning erran to Gimerton, came bursting in with the news.
[11:55.00]Oh, what next?
[11:57.91]She cried.
[11:59.81]She's gone.
[12:02.69]Miss Isabella's gone, gone off with Heathcliff.
[12:10.14]The blacksmith's lash saw them when they stopped to have a shoe fixed just after midnight.
[12:19.31]I ran to peep into Isabella's room, merely for form's sake, for of course I already knew it to be empty.
[12:30.16]Shall we send someone after them, sir?
[12:34.50]I asked my master on my return.
[12:38.88]He shook his head.
[12:43.92]She went of her own accord, he said.
[12:50.22]Trouble me no more about her.
[12:56.50]From this time, she is my sister in name only.
[13:05.72]And that was all he said on the subject.