Six weeks after their elopement, Heathcliff and Isabella returned to Wuthering Heights. They pulled up to the house in the evening after a long day of traveling. Joseph was standing outside the house with a candle waiting to greet the newlyweds. He took the two horses, and led them into the stables; he later reappeared to lock the outer gate. Heathcliff stayed to speak to him, leaving Isabella alone to inspect the place. Although this was not her first time at the Heights, it was her first time entering the home as Mrs. Heathcliff.
The first room she encountered was the kitchen. Isabella was astonished at how filthy the kitchen looked. Soot and dust covered much of the floor and there was a pile of dirty dishes on the table. Isabella noticed
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Isabella now understood why the house was in such poor condition. In the past, she had once admired Wuthering Heights. However, it seemed that much had changed to both the Heights and its residents.
“Joseph will show you Heathcliff’s chamber. Open the door and he should be in the next room.” he finally responded.
Just as Isabella was going to open the door, he suddenly stopped her, and added in the strangest tone—‘Be so good as to lock the door each night.” “But why, Mr. Earnshaw?” she asked. She did not relish the idea of deliberately locking herself up with Heathcliff. She had intentionally sought shelter at Wuthering Heights, almost gladly, because it would prevent her living alone with Healthcliff. However, now she was starting to regret wanted to living at the Heights.
“Look here!” he replied, pulling from his waistcoat a pistol with a double-edged spring knife attached to the barrel.
“I cannot resist going up with this every night, and trying his door. If once I find it open, he’s done for; I do it consistently, even though the minute before I have been recalling a hundred reasons that should make me refrain: it is some devil that urges me to thwart my own schemes by killing