Pearl comes out of the woods, reluctantly, to meet the minister, her father. She stands across the brook and, perhaps, jealous by the minister's monopoly on Hester's attention, she has a temper tantrum, which greatly alarms Dimmesdale. Hester believes Pearl has realized that Hester is without the letter. Hester has Pearl retrieve the scarlet letter from across the brook. She reveals to Pearl the happy.....
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