Ben: It did? (To Ethan) So why didn""t you come home before now?His presence in the Edwards family potentially promotes discord, and threatens to destroy its stability." [Appropriately, the half-hidden director of the film is shown holding all the cards - the full suit of spades, and he is similarly regarded as being sick by the doctor: "You don""t look very well either.Another more restrained couple is glimpsed sitting quietly and sadly together at one of the tables.Although not known until further into the film,Brief Encounteropens in the past - as the middle-aged couple meet and then part for the last time."The bond between Cathy and Heathcliff grows stronger when she convinces him to play make-believe just beneath a rock/castle on the moors at Peniston Crag, imagining that he is a prince of noble birth, and she is his queen:Cathy: You""re so handsome when you smile.