Enter Hester Prynne alone; walks proudly, with slow steps, to porch and enters church; looking neither to the right nor to the left, but straight before her, with her head up. People turn to look at her, but no one speaks.
First Woman. The brazen thing!
Second Woman. Didst note the fashion of her badge of vice,
And how she's turned it into ornament?
Third Woman. A handy woman with her needle.
First Woman. Let's in and stare her out of countenance.
[Exeunt Women.
Enter Governor Bellingham and Roger Prynne, called Doctor Chillingworth.
Governor. Now, as I told you, there hath lately come,
But how I know not, a change in him so rare,
It baffles cure.
Roger. I think you said he is
A very studious man?