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- Why are you dressed in silk?
- Because gentlefolk dress for dinner.

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

You can hear this line at 00:18:48 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I want to talk to you.

- Get out, Ellen.

- I will not. I take orders from...

- Get out!

- Well! Now that we're so happily alone, may I know to what I owe this great honor?

- He's coming here again.

- Who?

- You know who I mean. That stupid fop, Linton.

- You're unbearable. Utterly unbearable.

- Why are you dressed in silk?

- Because gentlefolk dress for dinner.

- And why are you trying to win his puling flatteries?

- I'm not a child anymore! You can't talk to me that way!

- I'm not talking to a child. I'm talking to Cathy... my Cathy.

- Oh. I'm your Cathy?

- Yes.

- Am I to take orders from you... a dirty stable boy?

[...]

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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