'Then he sang two choruses from Nelly Dean and was sick in a bucket.'

Nelly Dean suggests that Frances is most likely a woman with "neither money nor name to recommend her, or he would scarcely have kept the union from his father."

Also in this version, Nelly Dean, the narrator, is shown as being in love with Hindley and unable to express her feelings due to their class difference.

Catherine Earnshaw, unaware that Heathcliff is listening, tells Nelly Dean that to marry him would "degrade" her.

Nelly Dean describes him as "athletic" when he returns, and that his "upright carriage suggested his being in the army."

His corpse is initially found by Nelly Dean, who, peeping into his room, spots him.

Nelly Dean does not believe that he had the intention to commit suicide, but that his starvation may have been the cause of his death.

Its narrative is powerful but intricate, with most of the story told years after Cathy's death by the housekeeper, Nelly Dean.

Lockwood asks the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, about the family at Wuthering Heights, and she tells him the tale.

Nelly Dean: The main narrator of the novel, Nelly is a servant for all three generations of the Earnshaw and Linton families.