The employment pleased both mightily.

Linton would have another, and after that another, notwithstanding my strenuous objections; and so they went on until the clock struck twelve, and we heard Hareton in the court, returning for his dinner.
'And to-morrow, Catherine, will you be here to-morrow ?' asked young Heathcliff, holding her frock as she rose reluctantly.
'No,' I answered, 'nor next day neither.' She, however, gave a different response evidently, for his forehead cleared as she stooped and whispered in his ear.
'You won't go to-morrow, recollect, Miss!' I commenced, when we were out of the house.

'You are not dreaming of it, are you ?' She smiled.
'Oh, I'll take good care,' I continued: 'I'll have that lock mended, and you can escape by no way else.' 'I can get over the wall,' she said laughing.

'The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler.

And besides, I'm almost seventeen: I'm a woman.