Lockwood leaves Thrushcross Grange and heads over to Wuthering Heights, just as snow begins to fall.
The weather -- hence, "Wuthering" -- gets really nasty, to the point that it becomes too dangerous to leave without getting lost in the moors or buried in the snowstorm. But anyway...
Lockwood comes across a rough-looking young man and a beautiful young girl seated beside a fire, whom Lockwood mistook for Heathcliff's wife. She's actually Heathcliff's daughter-in-law, but Heathcliff's son had died (I wondered how and why.) And as for the young man, he's not Heathcliff's son. His name is Hareton Earnshaw.
Since the snowstorm grows into one nasty blizzard, Lockwood asks for a guide to accompany him back to Thrushcross Grange. But no one wanted to help him.
Talk about awkward...
So Lockwood takes a lantern, saying he'll find his way back on his own and that he'll return the lantern in the morning. But the mean old servant Joseph thought that Lockwood was stealing it.
What does Joseph do?
He sics the dogs on Lockwood, of course! Poor dude. He's pinned down to the floor by the dogs, and he feels angry and humiliated. This brings on a nosebleed, so he has to stay at Wuthering Heights. Zillah, another servant, leads Lockwood to the room where he'll be sleeping for the night.
Maybe Bella (from the Twilight saga) has more in common with Lockwood than with Cathy. Lockwood really has a knack for putting himself in awkward and clumsy situations. But I don't know if I can really blame him. His host and the people who reside at Wuthering Heights are not likable at all. They're all so... cranky!
TO CHAPTER 3... AND AWAY!
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