"Again, at the first instant of perceiving that thin visage, and the slight deformity of the figure, she pressed her infant to her bosom with so convulsive a force that the poor babe uttered another cry of pain. But the mother did not seem to hear it," Hester has now noticed a familiar face in the crowd who we find out later is her husband, who she hasn't seen it years. He is standing with an Indian man, they are similarly dressed meaning that her husband has spent a lot of time with the indians. It makes you wonder about the relationship they had in the past. Later in the book, her husband said, "that whoever her husband may have been must have been foolish to think he could keep a young wife happy". This maybe shows a little regret seeing how when he left she was obviously tempted by another man and he may have thought that he could keep Hester happy and make it so she would not cheat, but as we can tell, he did not.
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