She is obviously guilty of adultery, and the usual punishment for
adultery is death. But Mistress Prynne is young and good-looking, and
her husband is probably at the bottom of the sea. So, in their mercy,
the magistrates have ordered her to stand on the scaffold for three
hours, and to wear the scarlet “A” for adultery for the rest of her life.'
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