Pearl asks her mother about the letter. Hester goes to try to explain it to her,
but then realizes that she is too young to know about it and she might not be
able to keep a secret. The thing is though she also asks about minister
Dimmesdale and the way he clutches at his heart all the time. I think she knows
that somehow they are connected. She is more perceptive than most of the people
in the town, to be a child pearl seems to be one of the most perceptive people i



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