Could it be that when Heathcliff disappeared from Emily Brontë’s
Wuthering
Heights in pain after overhearing Catherine’s marriage plans that he went to
21st-century New York City, where 17-year-old Flannery Fields would enlist him to help find
her stray English teacher?
— Michael Main
Here she was dancing at O’Kelleys while Miss Sweeney wandered the city in despair; here
she was marveling at literary time travel as a true possibility, though
literary time travel sounded so goofy and grandiose that it shamed her
further.