In this chapter, Hester and Chillingworth talk. Hester tells Chillingworth that he needs to stop tormenting Dimmesdale. Chillingworth puts off a sense that he knows that Dimmesdale is Pearl's father. Hester picks up on this. Chillingworth says that there is talk about removing the "A" from Hester's bosom and Hester is appalled by this. She says that they both know that human authority cannot remove it. She hates Chillingworth's friendliness towards her. Chillingworth has lost his mind. All he think about it revenge and his face is started to look more evil. Hester says that he needs to forget about his revenge and return to being a human. Chillingworth did not listen to Hester.
-“It lies not in the pleasure of the magistrates to take off this badge,” calmly replied Hester. “Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall away of its own nature, or be transformed into something that should speak a different purport.”
-Hester says in this passage that if the "A" was ever to be removed, then it would just fall off. She
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