Chapter 21: The New England Holiday

-Hester and Pearl enter the market place to watch new officials assume office. She is excited to leave the town and restart her life
~“A few hours longer, and the deep mysterious ocean will quench and hide forever the symbol which ye have caused to burn upon her bosom!” (203)

-Pearl continues to ask her mother questions. She is confused by the minister and why he avoids them in daylight.
~“A strange, sad man he is, with his hand always over his heart!” (205)

-Hester and Dimmesdale’s plan to escape town is ruined by Roger Chillingworth.
~“Roger Chillingworth, the physician, was seen to enter the market-place, in close and familiar talk with the commander of the questionable vessel” (209).
~“Chillingworth, he calls himself- is minded to try my cabin-fare with you? Ay, ay, you must have known if; for he tells me he is of your party, and a close friend to the gentleman you spoke of,- he that is in peril from these sour old Puritan rulers!” (210)
~"Chillingworth, himself, standing in the remotest corner of the market-place, and smiling on her; a smile which conveyed secret and fearful meaning” (211).