Remember, doing things while the moon is covered by a cloud doesn’t keep your actions hidden!

This might be important later.

(Hint, Hint)

Frankenstein knows nothing about this.

He is now in Justine’s position from chapter 8:

Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!

This is another role reversal. Frankenstein is experiencing himself all of the grief he caused other people.

Frankenstein is here attempting to avoid his “fellow creatures” while gaining a fellow creature is the sole goal of the wretch… an interesting contrast.

In chapter 8, Frankenstein says this:

Elizabeth also wept and was unhappy, but hers also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides but cannot tarnish its brightness.

Maybe he is going to be discovered?

This image is reminiscent of Frankenstein’s first encounter with the wretch in chapter 5:

when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch—

The wretch is warning Frankenstein that he will get revenge somehow on Frankenstein’s wedding night.

This is appropriate because Frankenstein just ruined the wretch’s marital dreams.

Frankenstein believes that he is innocent, but that his dejected state is a result of his slavery.
This is not unfounded, for the monster has demonstrated his autonomy and rationality. The wretch can make his own decisions.

But guiltless? Really? Frankenstein basically created a monster and then abandoned him. Can he really be surprised when the wretch is upset?

Frankenstein found solace in both study and nature.

ennui- a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.