Wuthering Heights Part III

Nelly tells Lockwood that when Cathy married, Hindley told her to leave and work at the Grange, as the housekeeper, as he did not want women around the farmhouse. She missed little Hareton, but settled into her new home. She grew fond of Edgar, and rarely went back to the farm. About 6 months after her marriage, Nelly is startled to find Heathcliff has arrived at the house. He is now a grown man, handsome and well dressed and seemingly educated, he tells Nelly that he has come just to see Cathy once and then he will go. However, Cathy is so pleased to see him that he decides to stay, and he takes up lodgings at Wuthering Heights. Nelly never finds out how he made money, or got further education, during his 3 years away, and Edgar is clealry not happy with his wife being so close to her old friend. There is more tension in the house when Heathcliff begins to pay court to Isabella, who is her brother's heir, if Edgar does not have a son. Cathy is angry and jealous, and Edgar does not like the idea of his sister marrying a man of no family like Heathcliff. Nelly meets Joseph, who tells her that HIndley is drinking heavily and playing cards with Heathcliff who is winning all the time, and that he will drink himself to death at this rate. Nelly is the same age as Hindley and had been close to him in childhood, so she is upset to hear how he has become a drunken wreck. But at the Grange, Cathy and Edgar begin to quarrel over Heathcliff and Cathy who is now pregnant, shuts herself up in her room and wont let Nelly in for a couple of days. Nelly tries to calm her but Cathy becomes ill, and it seems likely that she wont live much longer. Heathcliff elopes with Isabella and they run away and do not come back for 2 months. He then breaks into the house knowing that Cathy is very ill and wanting to see her one more time. They kiss each other but argue, and Cathy collapses. Edgar calls a doctor, but that night, Cathy has a baby and dies. Heathcliff is now ignoring his wife, Isabella, having ill treated her so much that she hates him. Soon after Cathy's death, Isabella runs away and she moves down south, to escape her husband. Nelly takes on the care of the baby, Catherine, and Hindley dies, having lost the farm to Heathcliff. For several years, Edgar lives quietly at the Grange, educating his daughter and mourning his wife. THen some years later, Isabella dies, and Linton her son by Heathcliff, comes up to Yorkshire, to live with Edgar and Cathy. He is soon taken away by his father, who dislikes him, but wants to keep him to use as a weapon against Edgar.