"How can I?" I said.... "Let _me_ go, if you want me to let you in." I stopped my ears to exclude the lamentable prayer, ... yet the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry moaning on! "Begone!" I shouted; "I'll never let you in, not if you beg for twenty years." In _Wuthering Heights_ Charlotte Brontë has worked the child-phantom into the story proper, setting it for the spirit of the departed Catherine, who as a child again (Method II., altering age of the character portrayed) seeks Heathcliffe. The building of the child-phantom in the plot of _Wuthering Heights_ created a peculiar state of affairs; but as we have seen by Charlotte Brontë's reference to it in the extract from _The Professor_, she was impressed by its possibilities of giving a weird spiritual atmosphere, and she did not extend the idea in _The Professor_. The substance of Charlotte Brontë's two versions of the child-phantom wailing outside a house for admittance is identical:-- _The Professor._ _Wuthering Heights._ Scene: An isolated homestead on a Scene: An isolated homestead on a winter's night, snow-wind blowing, winter's night, snow-wind blowing, storm threatening. Young stranger storm threatening. Young stranger admonished by the good housewife admonished by the good housewife that there are queer goings-on that there are queer goings-on thereabouts. thereabouts. Subjunctive Mood. Indicative Mood. Something might brush against Something brushes against the the lattice, and a phantom-child lattice, and a phantom-child might wail outside for succour. wails outside for succour. On opening to admit it an awful, On opening to admit it an awful, supernatural incident might occur. supernatural incident occurs.