Hester Prynne, after her husband disappeared many years ago, has been charged with adultery. Fact is proven by her otherwise unexplainable pregnancy. The mother and child were put in the public eye on the scaffold merely yesterday where Mrs. Prynne refused to disclose her guilty partner.
As punishment Mrs. Prynne will be wearing the scarlet letter—the golden letter “A” embroidered on red—forever upon her garments. This shameful token, along with the daughter that has resulted from this heinous crime, will be daily