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However, after Mr. Lockwood "accepts the invitation" he immediately feels uneasy. This is evident when Mr. Lockwood states that he "would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralia" (Bronte 57). Also, after Heathcliff left Mr. Lockwood with the dogs and after the dogs attacked him, Mr. Lockwood states that "Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar steps with vexatious phlegm: I don't think they moved one second faster than usual, thought the hearth was an absolute tempest of worrying and yelping" (Bronte 89). This statement shows the reader just how unwelcome Mr. Lockwood feels at Wuthering Heights because he saw that Mr. Heathcliff was not in any bit of a hurry to assist him or protect him from the dogs. The unwelcome that Mr. Lockwood feels is accentuated at the end of his first visit when he states that Mr. Heathcliff "wished no repetition of my intrusion". The second visit made by Mr. Lockwood to Wuthering Heights also fills Lockwood with a feeling of being unwelcome. After the servants do not let him enter the house, Mr. Lockwood is filled with rage and he yells at the servants in his mind and calls them "Wretched inmates! You deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality. At least, I would not keep my doors barred in the daytime. I don't care I will get in" (Bronte 98).