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There, do you understand now?

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

You can hear this line at 00:29:06 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- What else? You've given me a great deal else. You've given me your own self, your strength.

- My strength?

- You'd understand if you really knew what my life was before. It was like the moors, endless and desolate. And I was lost in them, calling for someone in the darkness to save me and nobody answered.

- I couldn't even see the trace of a path. I was so frightened, so terribly alone and...

- And suddenly you were there, Edgar. You held out your hand and led me back to a way of living I thought I'd lost forever.

- What you said long ago is true. There was a curse on me. It kept me from being myself... or, at least, what I wanted to be. And that kept me from living in - heaven.

- There, do you understand now?

- Cathy, my darling. Let me take care of you forever. Let me guard you and love you always.

- Would you? Would you love me... always?

- Always.

- Then let's be married. Quickly. Quickly!

- 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...

[...]

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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