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Heathcliff, is it true? Did you ask Isabella to marry you?

6 seconds sound clip from the Wuthering Heights (1939)) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:37:22 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- How dare you say that?

- Yes, you do love him. You're mad with pain and jealousy at the thought of my marrying him.

- Because you want him to pine for you, dream of you, die for you, while you're safe as the lovely Mrs. Edgar Linton.

- You won't have him happy. You want to hurt and destroy him. But I want to make him happy! And I will! Do you hear? I will!

- Sit down, Cathy. I won't say I'm not surprised to see you.

- Heathcliff, is it true? Did you ask Isabella to marry you?

- Oh, you mustn't do this villainous thing.

- She's never harmed you!

- No, but you've harmed me.

- Then punish me!

- And that's what I intend to do.

- I don't understand.

- Every moment I hold her in my arms, when I kiss her, when I promise her life and happiness, you'll be punished.

- You'd marry her to do that?

- Yes! To teach you the ways of pain and the hell that I'm in.

[...]

Wuthering Heights (1939) Sound Clip

The 39 StepsMemorable quotes from Emily Brontë's novel, featuring sound clips from the Lux Radio Theatre broadcast version first aired on September 18, 1939 on CBS.

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Cathy), Ida Lupino (Isabella Linton), Brian Aherne (Heathcliff), Thomas Freebairn-Smith (Edgar Linton), Kemball Cooper (Hindley), Marga Ann Deighton (Ellen)

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