In the next few days after the garden incident Heathcliff all but stopped eating, and spent the nights walking outside. Heathcliff began acting very awkwardly. One day Cathy was happily working on her garden and came across Heathcliff, she was surprised to see him looking "very much excited, and wild, and glad." I told him he should eat, and indeed at dinner he took a heaped plate, but abruptly lost interest in food, he seemed to be watching something by the window, and went outside. Everyone in the household was puzzled by this weird version of Heathcliff. ...