Isabella escapes to London, where she has a son, giving him her maiden name of Linton. Catherine becomes pregnant, and a sudden irruption by Heathcliff induces her labour: she dies giving birth to Cathy. He renews his association with Catherine, to the dismay of her effete husband Edgar, but then elopes with Isabella, whom he maltreats. He encourages Hindley's drunkenness and gambling, and wins from him the deeds to Wuthering Heights. He lodges with Hindley, who is now widowed with a young son, Hareton. The petulant adolescent has changed into a master schemer whose twin passions, love and desire for revenge, are thinly masked by wealth and an air of gentility. Three years later, Heathcliff returns as abruptly as he left. Catherine has met Edgar and Isabella, the children of the Linton family at Thrushcross Grange, and Edgar has proposed to her. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Hindley humiliates Heathcliff, who endures everything on account of his love, until he overhears Catherine tell Ellen that it would degrade her to marry him. Heathcliff and Catherine develop a passionate love, while mutual hatred grows between Heathcliff and Hindley. Ellen's account begins with the father of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw returning home with an orphan child, whom he names Heathcliff and who becomes his favourite.
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