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Keeper, Emily Brontë’s dog, was fierce and unruly and obeyed only her. When Emily died at the age of thirty, “her devoted Keeper, whom she had treated with the sort of feeling usually reserved for human beings, walked in the short cortège of Charlotte, Anne, the servants and Mr. Brontë, behind the wooden coffin through the graveyard in the biting wind. He was taken into the church and the Brontës’ own pew, where he sat quietly while the burial service was read. And for the next week he lay outside Emily’s bedroom and howled.”****

**** Rebecca Fraser, The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë and Her Family (New York: Crown, 1988), pp. 318–19.