How we cite our quotes: (chapter.paragraph)
Quote #10
He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man and hide himself in deserts, but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation. They might even hate each other; the creature who already lived loathed his own deformity, and might he not conceive a greater abhorrence for it when it came before his eyes in the female form? She also might turn with disgust from him to the superior beauty of man; she might quit him, and he be again alone, exasperated by the fresh provocation of being deserted by one of his own species. (20.1)
Oops. Frankenstein almost made a fatal error: forgetting that Mrs. Monster might have some ideas of her own. Maybe she doesn't want to move to South America. Maybe she'd prefer to stay right there in Scotland, or get a flat in London. Who knows?