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In
all
the
seven
bygone
years
,
Hester
Prynne
had
never
before
been
false
to
the
symbol
on
her
bosom
It
may
be
that
it
was
the
talisman
of
a
stern
and
severe
,
but
yet
a
guardian
spirit
,
who
now
forsook
her
;
as
recognising
that
,
in
spite
of
his
strict
watch
over
her
heart
,
some
new
evil
had
crept
into
it
,
or
some
old
one
had
never
been
expelled
.
As
for
little
Pearl
,
the
earnestness
soon
passed
out
of
her
face
.
But
the
child
did
not
see
fit
to
let
the
matter
drop
.
Two
or
three
times
,
as
her
mother
and
she
went
homeward
,
and
as
often
at
supper-time
,
and
while
Hester
was
putting
her
to
bed
,
and
once
after
she
seemed
to
be
fairly
asleep
,
Pearl
looked
up
,
with
mischief
gleaming
in
her
black
eyes
.
"
Mother
,
"
said
she
,
"
what
does
the
scarlet
letter
mean
?
"
And
the
next
morning
,
the
first
indication
the
child
gave
of
being
awake
was
by
popping
up
her
head
from
the
pillow
,
and
making
that
other
enquiry
,
which
she
had
so
unaccountably
connected
with
her
investigations
about
the
scarlet
letter
--
"
Mother
!
--
Mother
!
--
Why
does
the
minister
keep
his
hand
over
his
heart
?
"
"
Hold
thy
tongue
,
naughty
child
!
"
answered
her
mother
,
with
an
asperity
that
she
had
never
permitted
to
herself
before
.
"
Do
not
tease
me
;
else
I
shall
put
thee
into
the
dark
closet
!
"
Hester
Prynne
remained
constant
in
her
resolve
to
make
known
to
Mr.
Dimmesdale
,
at
whatever
risk
of
present
pain
or
ulterior
consequences
,
the
true
character
of
the
man
who
had
crept
into
his
intimacy
.
For
several
days
,
however
,
she
vainly
sought
an
opportunity
of
addressing
him
in
some
of
the
meditative
walks
which
she
knew
him
to
be
in
the
habit
of
taking
along
the
shores
of
the
Peninsula
,
or
on
the
wooded
hills
of
the
neighbouring
country
.
There
would
have
been
no
scandal
,
indeed
,
nor
peril
to
the
holy
whiteness
of
the
clergyman
's
good
fame
,
had
she
visited
him
in
his
own
study
,
where
many
a
penitent
,
ere
now
,
had
confessed
sins
of
perhaps
as
deep
a
dye
as
the
one
betokened
by
the
scarlet
letter
.
But
,
partly
that
she
dreaded
the
secret
or
undisguised
interference
of
old
Roger
Chillingworth
,
and
partly
that
her
conscious
heart
imparted
suspicion
where
none
could
have
been
felt
,
and
partly
that
both
the
minister
and
she
would
need
the
whole
wide
world
to
breathe
in
,
while
they
talked
together
--
for
all
these
reasons
Hester
never
thought
of
meeting
him
in
any
narrower
privacy
than
beneath
the
open
sky
.
At
last
,
while
attending
a
sick
chamber
,
whither
the
Rev.
Mr.
Dimmesdale
had
been
summoned
to
make
a
prayer
,
she
learnt
that
he
had
gone
,
the
day
before
,
to
visit
the
Apostle
Eliot
,
among
his
Indian
converts
.
He
would
probably
return
by
a
certain
hour
in
the
afternoon
of
the
morrow
.
Betimes
,
therefore
,
the
next
day
,
Hester
took
little
Pearl
--
who
was
necessarily
the
companion
of
all
her
mother
's
expeditions
,
however
inconvenient
her
presence
--
and
set
forth
.
The
road
,
after
the
two
wayfarers
had
crossed
from
the
Peninsula
to
the
mainland
,
was
no
other
than
a
foot-path
.
It
straggled
onward
into
the
mystery
of
the
primeval
forest
.
This
hemmed
it
in
so
narrowly
,
and
stood
so
black
and
dense
on
either
side
,
and
disclosed
such
imperfect
glimpses
of
the
sky
above
,
that
,
to
Hester
's
mind
,
it
imaged
not
amiss
the
moral
wilderness
in
which
she
had
so
long
been
wandering
.
The
day
was
chill
and
sombre
.
Overhead
was
a
gray
expanse
of
cloud
,
slightly
stirred
,
however
,
by
a
breeze
;
so
that
a
gleam
of
flickering
sunshine
might
now
and
then
be
seen
at
its
solitary
play
along
the
path
.
This
flitting
cheerfulness
was
always
at
the
further
extremity
of
some
long
vista
through
the
forest
.
The
sportive
sunlight
--
feebly
sportive
,
at
best
,
in
the
predominant
pensiveness
of
the
day
and
scene
--
withdrew
itself
as
they
came
nigh
,
and
left
the
spots
where
it
had
danced
the
drearier
,
because
they
had
hoped
to
find
them
bright
.
