Hester tries to get Pearl to come over to her and Dimmesdale, but Pearl won't
come back over until her mother puts back on the "A." Pearl kisses her mother
and the letter, but refuses Dimmesdale's because he will not walk into town with
them. "“I see what ails the child,” whispered Hester to the clergyman, and
turning pale in spite of a strong effort to conceal her
trouble and annoyance. “Children will not abide any, the
slightest, change in the accustomed aspect of things that
are daily before their eyes. Pearl misses something which she has always         
 seen me wear!" Pearl controls her mother.



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