Doth he love us?” said Pearl, looking up with acute intelligence into her mother’s face. “Will he go back with us, hand in hand, we three together, into the town?”
Pearl knows that Dimmsdale is ashamed of what he has done. In this society it is frowend upon to do any sin. So he does not want to go into the society and show that he has commited a sin. Pearl is very smart and she knows that dimmsdales is a coward, even though hester is trying to deny it.
180 - 184 seem to hold a lot of meaning?
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