The Scarlet Letter

After the physician's death, the wearer of the scarlet letter disappeared, and pearl along with her. For many years, though a vague report would now and then find its way across the sea like a shapeless piece of driftwood tossed ore with the initials of a name upon it, yet no tidings of them were received. One afternoon some children were at play when they beheld a tall woman in a gray robe approach the cottage door. And hester prynn had returned and taken up her long forsaken shame. But where was little pearl? If still alive, she must now have been in the flush and bloom of early womanhood,. none knew, nor ever learned