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Tell him I'm not at home, Ellen.

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

You can hear this line at 00:30:15 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- If the Linton home had seemed heaven to me before, I don't know what to call it after she became its mistress.

- The only one who did not seem completely happy was Edgar's sister, Isabella.

- A year or two after the marriage, the three of them sat in the drawing room... Edgar reading, Isabella playing the spinnet, Cathy quietly doing pet it point...

- The door knocker sounded. When I saw who it was, I went back into the drawing room.

- Why, what's the matter?

- Heathcliff - has come back.

- Tell him I'm not at home, Ellen.

- Not at home, darling?

- To whom?

- It's Heathcliff.

- Well! Does he seem the same?

- No, sir. I hardly recognised him. Fine clothes... he seems quite the gentleman.

- Don't prattle, Ellen! I said I didn't wish to see him!

- Oh, nonsense, Cathy. It's been a long time. Bygones must be bygones.

- Oh, yes, let us see some kind of caller.

[...]

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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