After Catherine's Funeral Isabella manages to escape from Wuthering heights, and she runs home to the Grange. Isabella tells Nelly about her horrific escape from Wuthering Heights and from Heathcliff. Shortly after Isabella moves to London where she delivers her only child, a son, who is christened Linton.
Nelly continues to tell Mr. Lockwood about her life at the Grange. She tells him about Catherine's daughter, who was named Catherine (but always reffered to as Cathy), and who was Nelly's sole responsability.
Catherine (Cathy) grew up a happy, pampered little girl. She lived a secluded life. Appart from here house the only othe rplace she was allowed was church. And when she went outside she was only allowed within a mile of home. As Cathy grew older she grew more and more curious about the world beyond Thrushcross Park. So one day she took her pony and rode out onto the moors. During this time Edgar is taking his nephew, Linton, into custody because Isabella is deathly sick.
As Cathy is riding out on the moors she encounters a young man. They talk and laugh, and Cathy follows the man back to his house. The young man is Hareton Earnshaw, and the house he leads Catherine Linton to, is Wuthering Heights.
Finally Nelly, who has been worried sick about Cathy, finds her and takes her back to Thrushcross Grange, after revealing to Cathy that Hareton is her cousin on her mother's side. This news does not sit well with Cathy, because she veiws Hareton as inferior to her, because he is basically a farm boy, a labor source, and certainly not someone respectable enough to be of blood relation to her.
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