Chapter 4 The Scarlet Letter

The Crimson Letter Affiliate 4

Affiliate 4

In the prison house, the baby is upset. We wonder why? Oh, possibly considering the baby is in a Prison house.
The stranger shows up, telling everyone that he'south a doc named Roger Chillingworth.
Ooh. Is it cold in hither? Did someone just open a window?
Chillingworth is left alone with Hester, we are shocked—okay, actually not that shocked—to find out that he's her long-lost married man. Cue the dramatic music.
He gives both the baby and Hester medicine to help them sleep and to take away whatever pain they feel.
Uh, Hester? Perchance you should be careful about taking something from your absentee husband who'due south simply shown up to observe out that you've been stepping out on him.
Hester thinks so, as well.
No, no, Chillingworth says: he plans to keep her live so she can go on on feeling the shame of the scarlet alphabetic character.
Nice guy.
Anyhow, he's washed wrong, too. Sure, Hester cheated on him, just Chillingworth should have known ameliorate than to imprison a youthful dazzler like Hester in a union to an elderly, misshapen man.
In any case, he'southward going to ferret out the identity of her lover. Meanwhile, he wants her to keep his identity a clandestine.
For some reason, she agrees to this.