Immediately after the monster comes to life, Victor runs from the room in horror. The creature finds him later, in his bedroom, and he attempts to "grin" at Victor, but as "no mortal could support that countenance," Victor runs away again out into the night. He spends the night outside, and in the morning, Henry Clerval, Victor's best friend, arrives in Ingolstadt. When they return to Victor's apartments, the monster is gone, and Henry remarks on how sick Victor seems. "This was the commencement of a nervous fever" from which Henry nursed Victor back to health over the course of several months. When the fever eventually breaks, it is spring, and Victor seems to have been reborn just as nature has been; he finally seems happy and is especially responsive to the beauties of nature. He has developed a "violent antipathy" to anything having to do with science, and he has no desire whatsoever to continue his studies on this subject; even the praise of his favorite professor is painful to him. Finally, he receives a letter from his father that his youngest brother, William, has been murdered, and Victor returns home to Geneva.
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