ays that he will find his own way, promising to return with the lantern in the morning. Joseph assumes that he is stealing the lantern, and looses the dogs on him. Pinned down by the dogs, Lockwood grows furious, and begins cursing the inhabitants of the house. His anger brings on a nosebleed, and he is forced to stay at Wuthering Heights. The housekeeper, Zillah, leads him to bed.
             Zillah leads Lockwood to an out-of-the-way room from which Heathcliff has forbidden all visitors. On a ledge by the bed, he sees that someone has written words by scratching away the paint: three names, Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, and Catherine Heathcliff. He finds a diary from around 25 years earlier; apparently it belonged to this Catherine, and he reads an entry that describes a day at Wuthering Heights shortly after her father died, during which she and Heathcliff were forced to endure a Sunday School lesson by her cruel older brother, Hindley. Catherine and Heathcliff s eem to have been very close, and Hindley seems to have hated Heathcliff-the diary even describes Hindley telling his wife, Frances, to pull the boy's hair.
             Lockwood falls asleep and has a pair of nightmares; he awakes from the first when a fir branch begins tapping on his window; in a dreamlike state, he attempts to break off the branch by forcing his hand through the window glass. But instead of a branch, he finds a ghostly hand, which seizes his, and Catherine Linton's voice begins to demand to be let in. To free himself from the ghost, Lockwood rubs its wrist onto the broken glass, until blood covers the bed sheets. The ghost lets go, and Lockwood tries to cover the hole in the window with a pile of books. But the books begin to fall, and he cries out in terror. Heathcliff rushes into the room, and Lockwood cries out that the house is haunted. Heathcliff curses him, but as Lockwood flees from the room Heathcliff begins to cry out to Catherine, begging her t...