And so it is the seventeenth century and it is June and there are Puritans standing before a beaten up prison door And there are weeds and there is a rose bush and it’s out of place around the darkness And there are Puritan women waiting and they are gossiping and Hester comes out beautiful with a three month old baby And she is wearing the Scarlet Letter and the crowd is unsympathetic and …showed first 75 words of 847 total…

…showed last 75 words of 847 total…asked questions and if minister will acknowledge them and Hester tells Pearl not to call Dimmesdale then captain tells Chillingworth will be on their trip to Europe And many versions of what happened go around and some think it’s medicine and some think the minister inflicted on himself “Be true! be true!” And Chillingworth disappears and leaves Pearl great wealth in his will and they disappear and “they” are buried next to each other