o return. The ghost shows no sign of having ever been at the window. In the morning, Heathcliff is cruel to young Catherine, but escorts Lockwood home. His servants, who believed him dead in the storm, are overjoyed, but Lockwood retreats into his study to escape human company.
             The next day, however, Lockwood becomes lonely. When his housekeeper Nelly Dean brings him his lunch, he asks her to sit and tell him the history of the people at Wuthering Heights. She attempts to clarify the family relationships, explaining that the young Catherine whom Lockwood met at Wuthering Heights is the daughter of the Catherine who was Nelly's first mistress at Wuthering Heights, and that Hareton Earnshaw is young Catherine's cousin, the nephew of the first Catherine's mother. The first Catherine was the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw, the late proprietor of Wuthering Heights, and married Edgar Linton, who inherited Thrushcross Grange. Now young Catherine is the last of the Lintons; Hareton is the last of the Earnshaws. Nelly says that she grew up as a serva
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