'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë (chapter 22 - 27)

Cathy, frightened from her romance, became sadder, that’s why her father decided that it would be better for her to spend more time in the outside than in the library. Unfortunately, Edgar couldn’t be her companion and Helen had to. One autumn day in damp weather, they went for a walk in the park. When they came to the gate that opened on the road Helen heard the trot of a horse; that was Mr. Heathcliff. He was going to London for about two weeks, and asked Cathy to walk to the Heights as Linton’s state became worse without her.

   That period the young lady and Linton spent together, but happy moment were rare in their meetings, as almost all time the boy was ill or played up, so he behaved himself so selfish. Meanwhile, Mr. Linton understood his enemy’s plan to marry the young people; it was inescapable, as only that way his daughter could return her ancestor’s house. And Mr. Heathcliff himself was so earnest in pursuing his object, that he treated his dying son so tyrannically to embody his plan before it would be defeated by death.

   So for the next seven days Cathy had to go to Linton, though she regretted that every moment that she didn’t spend beside her father’s bed, as Edgar’s state was the evidence of his end. However, Miss Cathy with Helen went to Linton, who received them with a great admiration that time. But the boy, it seemed, feared something exquisitely; his behavior was too strange. Some minutes later all of them saw Heathcliff and his son couldn’t even glanced at him in another state of helpless fear; that’s why he asked Cathy to walk home with him. Helen was against and Heathcliff threatened to pinch his son and make him scream until it moved her charity, so the woman had no objections. And having come to the house, they couldn’t get out.

Heathcliff locked the door and had the key in his hand, when the girl tried to get it out; then she tried her nails, but finding that they made nothing, she applied her teeth. Suddenly the man opened his hand, but Cathy couldn’t pick the key as Heathcliff seized her with one hand and gave her a shower of terrible slaps on both cheeks. Everything was clear that moment: the boy feared to resign fury of his father if he couldn’t get them to the Heights; Catherine and Helen had to spend night there, as in the morning the girl and Linton were to be married.