Chapter 13

Hester is such an amazing person that people start to think of the "A" as
standing for able instead of adultery. Hester starts to worry that Chillingsworth
might be doing harm to Dimmesdale. " It is to the credit of human                
nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves
more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet
process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change
be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original
feeling of hostility. In this matter of Hester Prynne, there
was neither irritation nor irksomeness. She never battled with the               
public, but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage; she made no
claim upon it, in requital for what she suffered; she did
not weigh upon its sympathies." This shows that the townspeople eventually got
over hating Hester.