answer key 'well, if i cannot keep heathcliff for my friend??if edgar will be mean and jealous, i'll try to break their hearts by breaking my own. that will be a prompt way of finishing all, when i am pushed to extremity! but it's a deed to be reserved for a forlorn hope; i'd not take linton by surprise with it. to this point he has been discreet in dreading to provoke me; you must represent the peril of quitting that policy, and remind him of my passionate temper, verging, when kindled, on frenzy. i wish you could dismiss that apathy out of that countenance, and look rather more anxious about me.'