noon
Kissing her cheek , he murmured , -- ` I am going to her ; and you , darling child , shall come to us ! ' and never stirred or spoke again ; but continued that rapt , radiant gaze , till his pulse imperceptibly stopped and his soul departed . None could have noticed the exact minute of his death , it was so entirely without a struggle . Whether Catherine had spent her tears , or whether the grief were too weighty to let them flow , she sat there dry-eyed till the sun rose : she sat till noon , and would still have remained brooding over that deathbed , but I insisted on her coming away and taking some repose . It was well I succeeded in removing her , for at dinner-time appeared the lawyer , having called at Wuthering Heights to get his instructions how to behave . He had sold himself to Mr. Heathcliff : that was the cause of his delay in obeying my master 's summons . Fortunately , no thought of worldly affairs crossed the latter 's mind , to disturb him , after his daughter 's arrival .