About twelve o'clock
Mind ! or I pay another visit , whether Linton be in or not . ' He sent a rapid glance through the half-open door of the chamber , and , ascertaining that what I stated was apparently true , delivered the house of his luckless presence . About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights : a puny , seven-months ' child ; and two hours after the mother died , having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss Heathcliff , or know Edgar . The latter 's distraction at his bereavement is a subject too painful to be dwelt on ; its after-effects showed how deep the sorrow sunk . A great addition , in my eyes , was his being left without an heir . I bemoaned that , as I gazed on the feeble orphan ; and I mentally abused old Linton for -LRB- what was only natural partiality -RRB- the securing his estate to his own daughter , instead of his son 's .