The Scarlet Letter

What is a summary of the conversation between the townsman and the stranger?

What is a summary of the conversation between the townsman and the stranger?

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In Chapter Three, Hester notices an Indian accompanied by a white man on the edge of the crowd. She recognizes the white man as Roger Chillingworth, her husband, who sent her to America and remained in Amsterdam. Hester fearfully clutches Pearl harder, which again causes her child to cry out in pain.

Roger Chillingworth asks a bystander who Hester is and what her crime was. The man informs him of her past, telling that she was sent to Boston to await her husband, but she ended up with a child instead. Chillingworth remarks that the man who was her partner in the crime of adultery will eventually become known.

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