Chapter 6 describes Catherine's first night at Northanger Abbey. "A moment's glance was enough to satisfy Catherine that her apartment was very unlike the one which Henry had endeavored to alarm her by the description of" (Austen 135). Instead of having a creepy room full of webs, dust, and trap doors, her guest room is beautiful, very light due to the large window, and extremely clean. The only interesting item in the room at first is a trunk at the end of the bed. Catherine thinks, at first, that it could be housing something scary… but then she opened it and only found spare blankets.
That night, during a loud storm, as she was preparing for bed "she scorned the causeless fears of an idle fancy, and began with a most happy indifference to prepare herself for bed" (Austen 139). As she looked around the room reassuring herself that there was nothing scary in the room, her eyes fixated on a cabinet she had previously overlooked. "It was so very odd, after what Henry had said… she could not sleep till she had examined it" (Austen 139). Catherine had a very difficult time opening the cabinet, but when she was finally able to look inside it only contained a few receipts.
"Hour after hour passed away, and the wearied Catherine had heard three proclaimed by all the clocks in the house before the tempest subsided, or she unknowingly fell fast asleep" (Austen 141).
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