This is Hester Prynne again.  I have not written in a while so I have much to talk about. A couple nights ago I visited the Governor’s home to do my sewing thing. While there the governor spoke with Pearl. I felt so embarrassed when everyone said that Pearl was a rude child I didn’t raise her that way! But I guess sometimes the apple does not fall too far from the tree. I found out that same day that the town was trying to take my poor baby from me. I pleaded my case to let my baby stay with her mother and so far it has worked.  Dimmesdale was there as well. The night right after that Pearl and I were walking through the town and we found Dimmesdale up upon the scaffold.  Sweet little Pearl, asked Dimmesdale when would he stand in the light of day with us and of course he couldn’t give her an up front answer. Us just standing up there that night looking like a family brought tears to my eyes for sure. Everything looked like it should have been from the start but once again Chillingsworth messes things up for me. Then I went into the forest… which was the worst mistake of my life. The lady in black came to me and tried to force me to give her and the devil my soul. THE DEVIL WILL NOT HAVE MY SOUL NO MATTER WHAT I HAVE SINNED! The lady in black told me that if I wanted to meet her master I should come back the next day. I never returned to that part of the forest especially at night. Pearl is at that stage where she wants to know everything that’s going on in the world. Sometimes it can be very annoying telling a child what makes the world go round. I’ve been through so much that it’s crazy. Why can it be legal for the courts to try and take my child from me when they did not help produce or raise her?