She spends more time with Nelly instead. In late October or early November, Nelly and Cathy go out for a walk on the moors. She was told by her guardian that Edgar may possibly be dying and she should be patient towards him.
Cathy says that she loves her father and wouldn't say a word to annoy him. As they enter into the garden, Cathy climbs up on the wall to try to retrieve some fruit from a rose tree, but her hat falls off on the other side of the wall. She climbs over to find it, but is unable to get back up since the ground was low and the trees and bushes covered the wall.
As Nelly tries to find a way to open the door, Cathy hears a man on horseback approach her from the other side. It was Heathcliff, and the girl says she cannot speak to him because of how wicked he is. Cathy hears Heathcliff reprimanding her for ending her correspondence with Linton and he may be dying of a broken heart, as well as being suspected of playing mean tricks on him. He informs her that he will be away from the Heights for about a week and she must go see Linton frequently before he leaves.
Once she is freed from the wall, Cathy and Nelly walk back home in the rain. When they return to the Grange, Cathy checks on her sleeping father, and has tea with Nelly in the library. Cathy sits on the rug very quiet, until she tells her companion about her guilt of not writing to Linton and she convinces Nelly to bring her to the Heights tomorrow. The next day on a rainy morning, Nelly and Cathy arrive at the Heights.
They enter through the farmhouse, where Cathy warms herself by the fireplace and Nelly asks the servant Joseph where Linton is. They hear the boy's whiny, peevish voice calling for Joseph, and the two women enter the room where Linton is.
She asks him repeatedly if he is happy to see her again, but he first wondered why she stopped writing to him and he says 'yes' on being with his cousin again. When Linton asks her if she could be his wife and to look after him, Cathy says that they should be brother and sister instead of being married, since husbands and wives sometimes hated each other.
The two of them get into a heated argument about their fathers, with Cathy defending Edgar and Linton defending Heathcliff. She gets angry and pushes Linton's chair, causing him to fall to the floor and having a coughing and choking fit. She later tries to apologize to Linton, but he doesn't accept her apology, saying that being pushed to the floor is already having an effect on his frail health.
As Cathy leaves, Linton starts writhing on the floor, making her feel bad for him and spends the next hour looking after him by propping him up with pillows and reading poetry with him. She agrees that she will still come to see him. On their way back to the Grange, Cathy says to Nelly that she can easily leave the Grange to see Linton, and thinks he will recover faster the more she visits him. Nelly doubts he would live longer but the girl assures that he is improving since he arrived at Yorkshire.
She also agrees on the idea whenever she would receive her father's permission to go to the Heights alone. When Nelly falls ill with a cold for three weeks, Cathy spends most of her time throughout the day nursing her father and Nelly. At the same time, she had managed to leave the Grange in the evening and goes to the Heights to visit Linton.
She has one of the servants help her sneak out of the house in exchange for books. After she was caught sneaking back into her room by Nelly after seeing Linton, Cathy becomes distressed from trying to lie and she tells her the truth of her secret visits to the Heights.
She recalls one visit where Hareton tells her that he can read his name carved above the front door but she laughs at him when he can't read the numbers "". While she goes inside the house to be with Linton, Hareton barges in and throws Linton onto the floor. Cathy chases Hareton as he drags his cousin into the kitchen and bullies him. After Linton starts coughing up blood, Cathy rushes to get the servant Zillah and when they come back, Hareton was carrying his cousin upstairs. She ignores Joseph laughing at her as she mounts her pony and leaves afterwards.
While riding out on the moors, Hareton tries to apologize to her, but she hits him with her whip and rides away. She even recalled the one time she and Linton had an argument over different versions of spending their day. Cathy returns to the Heights 3 days later, but leaves immediately after Linton blames her for his humiliation. She returns 2 days later and tells Linton she will never visit him again, while he asks for forgiveness.
After finishing her story, she begs Nelly to not tell her father of her secret. But after Nelly tells Edgar everything, Cathy is forbidden to go visit Linton, but that he can still see her at the Grange. She obeys her father and doesn't go back to the Heights, although Linton is too weak to go to the Grange himself.
About a year afterwards, Edgar's health declines and decides that Cathy would marry Linton if she wishes, and she would see him not at the Heights, but on the moors. Accompanied by Nelly, Cathy rides to the spot where Linton was to meet them; but they found him nearby the Heights instead at his designated spot. Cathy is concerned at how frail and weak he has become, and that he tells her to lie to Edgar about his condition, insisting that he is getting better.
He is constantly afraid during the visit and tells her to stay with him for half an hour. She agrees to meet him again the following Thursday at the end of their visit, and after Linton falls asleep while berry-picking, she and Nelly leave.
As they return home, she and Nelly discuss about Linton's frail condition and they would have to wait until the next visit to see how sick he really is. At the Grange, she spends most of her time throughout the following week at her father's bedside, who is already dying. She doesn't want to leave him alone, but Edgar urges her to go see Linton on the day she was supposed to meet him. Cathy and Nelly ride across the moors to see Linton, and when they arrive, Linton is angry that she is late and questions her about her father's health.
He's more nervous than the last visit and reveals that his father had been pressuring him to court his cousin. As they talk, Heathcliff arrives, who is wanting to inherit the Grange and is worried Linton would die before Edgar. He asks Cathy and Nelly to come with him to the Heights, and while she is forbidden there, Cathy agrees to go mainly because Linton is too afraid to go back to the house without her.
But when they went inside, Heathcliff locks both women in. Catherine is alone in a room with Edgar and Nelly just after Heathcliff storms out. She tells Nelly to leave and when she refuses, she angrily pinches her, shakes her baby nephew Hareton and hits Edgar. She begs Edgar not to go after he plans to leave, shocked from her sudden outburst.
Later, when her brother returns home drunk, both she and Edgar were alone together when she apologizes for what had happened. The two make up and make their love confessions. The following evening, Catherine meets Nelly in the kitchen and informs her that she had just been betrothed to Edgar.
She wasn't sure why she has accepted his engagement, but mainly because he is rich and would like to live a lavish lifestyle like him. She also comments that she had a dream where she was in Heaven and wasn't happy there so the angels had returned her to Earth and back to the Heights.
She confesses that she cannot marry Heathcliff for fear that she would degrade herself, but she states that she still loves him so much that they are essentially the same person with kindred spirits.
While she was talking, Heathcliff had been listening to some of her conversation and ran away from the Heights.
After finding out he disappeared, Catherine runs outside during a rainstorm and desperately tries to find him. She develops a fever and nursed back to health by the Linton's. But in addition, they would both die from the illness. By now, Nelly also lives at the Grange with the newlyweds. For the next 6 months after their wedding, everything was fine. One evening, Heathcliff arrives at the Grange, appearing as a well-dressed, proper man. Catherine is frantic and excited to see him after such a long time, but her husband isn't approved of seeing Heathcliff.
The three of them have a conversation and Catherine learns that Heathcliff is staying over at the Heights as part of his plan of revenge. Later that evening, she talks to Nelly, saying that Edgar is jealous of him and doesn't like to hear her talk about the new Heathcliff.
Catherine and her sister-in-law Isabella visit the Heights often. She feels worried when Isabella starts to fall in love with Heathcliff and she warns her that he is a bad influence on her. She ends up humiliating her by exposing her crush to Heathcliff the next time he comes over to the Grange. When she sees that her former soulmate embraced Isabella lovingly, she confronts him about his affections for her, and would convince Edgar to let their marriage happen if he really does love Isabella.
But she was told by him that she had wronged him because of her marriage to Edgar and he will extract revenge. After Edgar is brought in to stop the confrontation, Catherine locks them both in the kitchen and throws the key into the fireplace so she could let them stand off against each other alone; even taunting Edgar to fight back.
Heathcliff quickly leaves and she is forced to choose by her husband on what man she loves the most. She responds by locking herself in her room and doesn't come out for 3 days. Catherine finally unlocks the door and lets Nelly come in and offer her some food, since she hadn't eaten while she confined herself. She thinks that she is dying and worries why Edgar didn't come for her.
She feels delirious and as she stares at her reflection in the mirror, becomes obsessed with death and rants about her childhood memories with Heathcliff on the moors.
She wants her window opened and when Nelly doesn't do it, Catherine opens it wide herself. Her health begins to worsen and a doctor is called to have a look at her. She would never fully recover from her illness.
For the next two months, she was confined in bed and treated by Nelly and Edgar. She also finds out she is pregnant with her first child. She continues to feel worse when a letter from Heathcliff was delivered to her a few days later. She is so weak she could barely hold the letter in her hand. Heathcliff arrives as soon as she receives it, and she tells him that both he and Edgar had broken her heart.
She cannot bear the thought of her dying while her first love is still living and begs for forgiveness. He does, but tells her that he cannot forgive the pain and heartbreak she allegedly caused herself, and he cannot forgive her "murderer". As Heathcliff prepares to leave, Catherine begs him to stay with her, and he does until Edgar arrives. Kenneth Zillah. Lockwood finds journal entries that describe Catherine and Heathcliff rebelling against Hindley.
She writes about their adventures on the moors. Catherine's ghost or one in Lockwood's dream tries to enter through the window of Wuthering Heights. Her ghost longs to come home after being "a waif for twenty years" 3. Lockwood cuts her wrist. A flashback begins when Nelly tells Lockwood Heathcliff's story: Catherine meets her new adoptive brother, Heathcliff, and though she at first spits on him, soon they are best friends—allies against her brutal, envious brother, Hindley.
Catherine and Heathcliff sneak down to Thrushcross Grange to see how the other half lives. She is bitten by a dog named Skulker and stays at the Grange to recuperate. While the Lintons welcome her, they reject Heathcliff as a "gipsy. Having glimpsed the life of a lady, she now clearly identifies with the Linton lifestyle. The Earnshaws come to visit the Heights at Christmas and Catherine makes cruel remarks to Heathcliff about his being dirty.
Born Catherine Earnshaw, and originally residing in Wuthering Heights, Catherine - or Cathy, as she is known in her childhood - is Hindley Earnshaw's sister and the foster sister of Heathcliff. The love between Catherine and Heathcliff forms the basis of "Wuthering Heights"' plot. She struggles in her decisions in the novel, to be true to her own heart and soul and be with Heathcliff, or make a good marriage and marry Edgar Linton, which is displayed by the names she writes on her books; 'Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, Catherine Heathcliff.
She becomes the foster sister of the orphan Heathcliff at the age of six years old, and the two quickly become very close companions, especially through their ramblings on the moors. They are separated when Hindley becomes jealous of his father's affection towards Heathcliff, and therefore he reduces Heathcliff to a servant-boy status after Mr. Earnshaw's death. Nevertheless, Catherine and Heathcliff's determined spirit towards one another does not part them, but rather they get into mischief while spying at Thrushcross Grange, the fancy home of the wealthy Linton family.
When a dog from the Grange attacks Cathy at her intrusion, the Lintons aid her by keeping her at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks. This visit allows Catherine to become a lady- much unlike the rude, wild, childish girl she often was with Heathcliff- and also allows her to form an intimate friendship with Edgar and Isabella Linton, the two children residing at the Grange.
Catherine's change is very much visible at her return to Wuthering Heights at Christmas time.
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