The Scarlet Letter
What is Hester's response to the announcement that the Council had debated allowing her to remove her scarlet letter?
In Ch. 14
In Ch. 14
“It lies not in the pleasure of the magistrates to take off this badge,” calmly replied Hester. “Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall away of its own nature, or be transformed into something that should speak a different purport.”
The Scarlet Letter