“听人说，”另一个女人说，“尊敬的丁梅斯代尔教长，就是她的牧师，为在他的教众中出了这桩丑事，简直伤心透顶啦。”

• "People say," said another, "that the Reverend Master Dimmesdale, her godly pastor, takes it very grievously to heart that such a scandal should have come upon his congregation.