While this passed, Hester Prynne had been standing on her pedestal, still with a fixed gaze towards the stranger--so fixed a gaze that, at moments of intense absorption, all other objects in the visible world seemed to vanish, leaving only him and her. Such an interview, perhaps, would have been more terrible than even to meet him as she now did, with the hot mid-day sun burning down upon her face, and lighting up its shame; with the scarlet token of infamy on her breast; with the sin-born infant in her arms; with a whole people, drawn forth as to a festival, staring at the features that should have been seen only in the quiet gleam of the fireside, in the happy shadow of a home, or beneath a matronly veil at church.
This quote is the 15th paragraph of chapter 3. This stranger kept saying good stuff for Hester Prynne. Now she fixed her gaze towards the stranger-so fixed a gaze that all other objects in the visible world seemed to vanish. This maybe hinting that the stranger might be the one who got her pregnant. This might be the man who got her in jail. That is why he is trying to help her and she fixed her gaze toward him.
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