Dressed in my finest religious clothes, I walked down the street and stopped at the scaffold. I could stand up there now, in the dark where no one could see me. But seven years before I couldn’t stand there with Hester and accept my guilt. I felt so ashamed that I cried out in the night. My painful cry caused many people, even the Governor, to look out their windows. After me crying I heard footsteps. Reverend Wilson was thinking about the man who, had passed away just moments before, so he didn’t even notice me on the scaffold. Later Hester and Pearl stepped up onto the platform. The moment that I took Pearl’s hand, I felt as if new life flowed through him. The three of us formed a chain I felt new energy, even though lately he had felt sick and tired. Hester and I didn’t know what to say to each other. Only Pearl spoke. My daughter asked me if I would stand on the scaffold with her and her mother. I told her that no I would not stand with them tomorrow but maybe another time I will. I told Pearl “that they would all stand together there on Judgment Day” (79).  Looking up in the dark night sky I thought I saw a hug glowing red A. While I was staring at the flaming red A in the sky, I felt Pearl pulling on my hand. I looked to see what Pearl was pointing at, and I was stunned to see Roger Chillingworth standing in front of the platform. I looked down at the man and shivered when I saw Chillingworth’s cold, cruel smile. I turned to Hester and ask her if she knew this man but she didn’t answer my question. Hester was silent. The next morning one of the townspeople came up to me to give me my glove that he had found on the scaffold. Before he could answer, the said “I’ll bet Satan stole it and left it there to mock your holiness.” The man who returned my gloves ask me if I saw the red A last night. I told him no that I had no idea what he was talking about. I was scared i had been discovered and that the man would blurt out my secret but the man said that it stood for Angel. I was relieved that he didn’t know what the A stood for.