The narrator's need to remove himself from humanity illustrates a degradation that he is becoming less human. The creator seems to be moving closer and closer to his creation. By the end of the passages, paranoia is taking over. The creature fully owns the mind of his master, and the reader waits for the inevitable explosion. Once landing on shore, evening has fallen.
Light is transitory, and the wind is rising violently.
The narrator becomes exceedingly anxious, and resolves that either the creature or he will die tonight. Believing that he can spare Elizabeth a grisly combat scene, he bids her to retire before him, that he might gain knowledge of the creature's whereabouts. He walks up and down, waiting. Suddenly a scream breaks from Elizabeth's room. After hesitating a moment, Victor runs in, only to find his bride murdered.