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.

— Cathy (Barbara Stanwyck)

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

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- And I was glad, for day by day, the strange influence that Heathcliff had had upon Cathy wore off and she was happy with Edgar.

- Why can't you remain here, forever, Cathy?

- Oh, Edgar, you and your sister, you've been too kind to me already.

- If I can make you happy by just by being kind, that should be enough for me. After all, what else can I give you?

- 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?

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