a design which she never found reason to repent
The first-time reader of this sentence would see no reason to pause and
ponder its import, but for one returning to the text and tracing its
linguistic and thematic linkages, it would hard to
understand how Victor could speak in such bland terms about circumstances
his mother could not foresee but through which he has suffered
inordinately. Moreover, not only does he have strong personal reason to
repent this "design," but its fulfillment, as he bitterly knows, will result
directly in the death of his father (3.6.5).
