The Scarlet Letter, a Scarlet Woman

Governor bellingham and his three guests gathered at Hester prynne's home. The child, unaccustomed to the touch or familiarity of any but her mother, escaped through an open window. She stood on the upper step looking like a wild tropical bird of rich plumage ready to take flight into the upper air. After many ungracious refusals to answer good mister wilson’s questions, the child finally announced that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses that grew by the prison door.