When the young master finally arrives, Tabby does her best to befriend the boy. (I did find it a bit of a stretch that an eleven-year-old would be so nonchallant about ghosts.) She tells the reader that "The dead hold no terrors for me," because a curate had once told her that the dead do no harm to the living. While Tabby is naturally frightened when she realizes that a dead girl is sharing her bed at night, she's not nearly as terrified as one might expect. It doesn't take Tabby long to discover that the few household servants at the estate are rather tight-lipped and more importantly, that the house is haunted. Tabby arrives a few days before the young boy and has time to investigate the many hallways and dark rooms of the large house. Eleven-year-old Tabitha Aykroyd is an orphan who has been brought to Seldom House to act as nursemaid to the young master of the household, Heathcliff.
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