The Scarlet Letter
What detail is given to suggest the baby was born in jail?
Hester's baby, chapter two
Hester's baby, chapter two
From the text:
She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquaintance only with the grey twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison.
The Scarlet Letter