Like his Creator, the Creature is highly conscious of rhetorical effect. By this locution
he may mean that he will now explain the ways in which his emotional involvement with
the cottagers intensified, but he is also setting a signpost for our own engagement
as readers with his text, as Victor has done before him (I:3:13) and will again attempt
to do after completing his narrative (III:Walton:4). Through his contemplation of
his effect, he raises anew the questions concerning truth and eloquence that are never
far from from the novel's surface.