Hester and Pearl have to go into town to the governers house so that Hester can give him the gloves he requested from her, also s0 that she can discuss a certain matter regaurding Pearl and herself. On their way, there are children in the street mocking the two and screaming inappropriate things at them. Pearl, still only three, starts screaming and throwing hand gesters at them and runs towards the pack of children until they all run away and Pearl calmly walks backto her mother and smiles into her face. I admired Pearls strongwill.

Once at the governers house, a servant (who is actually a temperary slave from England paying off his passage to America) answers the door, not being from New England, he had no idea of Hester Pryne and took her embroidered letter as a mark of high rank. Once in the house Pearl begins playing with things, to get her away from the possessions Hester turns Pearls attention on the garden outside but this backfires when Pearl starts screaming that she wants a red rose from outside. She is suddenly quieted when she catchest the glimpse of new faces in the garden, which proves to be Governer Billingham, Mr. Wilson, Reverand Dimmesdale and Old Roger Chillingworth.When they come in they almost run little Pearl over and start to ask her wo she is and where she ahs come from. Once realizing this is the child they had been speaking about they confront Hester Pryne on the very subject she had intended to discuss with them. The possibility that they would be trying to take Pearl out of her mothers care.

To prove that Hester was not fit to raise her child in the right Christian upbringing, they decide to ask Pearl questions regaurding her catechisms. Mr. Wilson asks her 'who made her' and although Pearl knows well enough who made her, she decides to be a brat like many children of three are, giggles and says "I was not made I was plucked by my mother off a bush of wild roses by the prison door." The men are inferiorated by this and tell Hester Pryne she is not fit to raide her child, to which Hester replies that Pearl is both her gift and her punishment, she is the only thing that keeps her here in the world and that she will die before giving her child up.