Miles Mander Quotes

Ellen She calls him, and he follows her out to the moor.

Lockwood Oh, he's mad. He's like a madman. He seized me by the collar and dragged me out. You see, I had a dream. I thought I heard a voice calling. I reached out to close the shutter and something touched me, something cold and clinging like an icy hand. And then I saw her, a woman, but then my senses must have become disordered, because the falling snow shaped itself into what looked like a phantom...

Ellen It was Cathy.

Lockwood Who is Cathy?

Ellen A girl who died.

Lockwood Oh no, I don't believe in ghosts. I don't believe in phantoms sobbing through the night.

Ellen Poor Cathy.

Lockwood I don't believe that life comes back, once it's died, and calls again to the living. No, I don't.

Ellen Maybe if I told you a story, you'd change your mind about the dead coming back. Maybe you'd know, as I do, that there is a force that brings them back, if their hearts were wild enough in life.

Ellen I can still see and hear that wild hour, with poor Heathcliff trying to tear away the veil between death and life, crying out to Cathy's soul to haunt him and torment him til he died.

Lockwood You say that was Cathy's ghost I heard at the window?

Ellen Not a ghost, but Cathy's love, stronger than time itself, still sobbing for its unlived days and uneaten bread.