Wuthering Heights Isabella Linton Quotes

The cowardly children crept nearer also, Isabella lisping—"Frightful thing! Put him in the cellar, papa. He's exactly like the son of the fortune-teller that stole my tame pheasant. Isn't he, Edgar?" (6.36)

Isabella Linton associates Heathcliff's racial background with criminal types. Is this what later attracts her to him? Hmm…