'Mr. Lockwood' rents 'Thrushcross Grange' and asks the housekeeper 'Nelly Dean' to tell him about the landlord and his family. This is the basis of which novel?
Nelly Dean Heights, Lockwood returns to Thrushcross Grange, his temporary residence, where he asks Nelly, the housekeeper, to divulge all that she knows. Nelly's mother was a servant at Wuthering Heights, and helped raise Hindley Earnshaw; Nelly was thus a foster sister and servant to Hindley and his sister Catherine Earnshaw. Nelly is the same age as Hindley, about six years older than Cathy. After an orphan boy named Heathcliff is brought to live at Wuthering Heights, Nelly is witness to much of the Earnshaw family's misfortune, the affection that Mr. Earnshaw has for Heathcliff (which leads to Hindley's bitter jealousy) and,
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud was a judge in a French colony, and later a businessman, he is separated from his wife and estranged from his two children. Nelly has an affair with Vincent (Anglade) who is Arnaud's editor. Arnaud feels a little jealous although it is never made clear whether Arnaud likes Nelly, who is much younger than him, or desires her sexually. Vincent rents a new apartment without telling Nelly and then asks her to move in with him. She refuses and breaks up with him telling him she doesn't want a long term relationship. She continues working for Arnaud until Arnaud's wife