Which excerpt from Chapter 3 of The Scarlet Letter is the best evidence that the stranger in the marketplace wants to keep his true identity a secret?
Abel
O When he found the eyes of Hester Prynne fastened on his own, and saw that she appeared to recognize him, he
O By the Indian's side, and evidently sustaining a companionship with him, stood a white man, clad in a strange
O Awithing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause,
O There was a remarkable intelligence in his features, as of a person who had so cultivated his mental part that it could
slowly and calmly raised his finger, made a gesture with it in the air, and laid it on his lips.
disarray of civilized and savage costume.
with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight.
not fail to mould the physical to itself and become manífest by unmistakable tokens.