NovelGuide: Wuthering Heights: Novel Summary: Chapters 31-32

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Chapters 31-32

Chapter 31: Hareton leaves the house just as Heathcliff returns, and Catherine leaves the room.� Lockwood tells Heathcliff that he will be returning to London next week, but as he has rented the place through October, Heathcliff must look for a tenant for that time.� Heathcliff invites Lockwood to dinner, and it is quite a cheerless meal.� Lockwood leaves, thinking what a fairy tale it would have been if he and Catherine had formed a relationship and moved to London.
Chapter 32: Soon after Lockwood left the Grange, Ellen is called to the Heights as Zillah has left.� She finds Catherine changed, and the happiness at having Ellen there soon leaves, and Catherine is irritable again as she is not allowed to leave the house.�� She taunts Hareton even more and is miserable.� Soon Hareton has an accident and must stay in the house for a while, and Catherine finds she likes having him around.� One day when the others are out, she tells Hareton that she would like to be friends with him.� He does not believe she means it, and she tries to tease him and make him agree to be friends.� She finally convinces him by kissing him on the cheek and giving him a book.� They are soon happy and looking over the book and are friends instead of enemies.� Ellen says that the friendship had a few temporary setbacks, but that they are fast friends, and that she looks forward to the union between them.