Chapters 4 & 5

1.) ""Ask me not!" replied Hester Prynne, looking firmly into his face. "That thou shalt never know!""(72).
2.) In chapter 3, when Chillingworth first arrived at the scene where Hester was being pilloried, her response to his presence seemed intimidating given to the occasion. However, when he tries to figure out the unknown sinner, Hester strongly and fearless of him refuses to answer his request. The change in Hester's attitude demonstrates her firm position in revealing the name of he who fathered her daughter. Either because of protection or simply careless reasons of her partner in crime, Hester is determine to withhold the truth of his existence.
3.) Questions:

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   Why would Chillingworth want to keep his identity anonymous? Can it be for purposes such as: avoiding the shame of being known to the town as he who has an unfaithful wife or maybe to keep the townspeople thinking that Hester is a shameless sinner for committing adultery while her husband died at sea?  
2. In the passage, " There dwelt, there trod the feet of one with whom she deemed herself connected in a union, that, unrecognized on earth, would bring them together before the bar of final judgment, and make that their marriage altar, for a joint futurity of endless retribution. Over and over again, the temper of souls had thrust this idea upon Hester's contemplation, and laughed at the passionate and desperate with which she seized, and then strove to cast it from her. She barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. What she compelled herself to believe--what, finally, she reasoned upon as her motive for continuing a resident of New England--was half a truth, and half a self-delusion"(77). who is the narrator referring to? 
3. When describing Pearl's apparel the narrator then adds "We may speak further of it hereafter"(80) why would would the author include this line? It sounds very much like a chemistry book.