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I was alone Victor ironically echoes the reflection of the Creature, as he contemplates the domestic
happiness of the De Lacey household, on his contrasting solitude. The diction the
Creature used at the point—"no Eve soothed my sorrows"—would suggest that it was then
that he began to conceive the plan for a mate that here comes to a disastrous conclusion.
(See II:7:11).