How do Hester’s responses in paragraphs 10 and 12 advance the plot? A. They introduce the need for Mr. Dimmesdale to intervene on her behalf.
B. They show that she will struggle to decide how to behave.
C. They pressure Mr. Dimmesdale to do something he is reluctant to do.
D. They suggest that she will eventually decide to confess.

10. ”Never,” replied Hester Prynne, looking, not at Mr. Wilson, but into the deep and troubled eyes of the younger clergyman. “It is too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off. And would that I might endure his agony as well as mine!”

11 ”Speak, woman!” said another voice,5 coldly and sternly, proceeding from the crowd about the scaffold, “Speak; and give your child a father!”

12 ”I will not speak!” answered Hester, turning pale as death, but responding to this voice, which she too surely recognized. “And my child must seek a heavenly father; she shall never know an earthly one!”