Scarlet Letter D.J. # 27 - Chapter 14: Part 1.

"Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled seaweed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs. So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet, went pattering along the moist margin of the sea. Here and there, she came to a full stop, and peeped curiously into a pool, left by the retiring tide as a mirror for Pearl to see her face in. Forth peeped at her, out of the pool, with dark, glistening curls around her head, and an elf-smile in her eyes, the image of a little maid, whom Pearl, having no other playmate, invited to take her hand and run a race with her. But the visionary little maid, on her part, beckoned likewise, as if to say,—“This is a better place! Come thou into the pool!” And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom; while, out of a still lower depth, came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated water." (pg. 147 1st paragraph) This is a continues motif throughout the book between Pearl and  nature(imps, elves, birds ect.). Being part of nature is considered being wild. This was against the town's beliefs and expectations of no one being independent. She has no law because she lives life out of society. She doesn't have to live like everyone else under the constraints of the society. She's free, like a bird.