Why does hester come to dread children, according to the passage from chapter 5 of the scarlet letter? "she grew to have a dread of children for they had imbibed from their parents a vague idea of something horrible in this dreary woman, gliding silently through the town, with never any companion but one only child. therefore, first allowing her to pass, they pursued her at a distance with shrill cries, and the utterance of a word that had no distinct purport to their own minds, but was none the less terrible to her, as proceeding from lips that nailed it unconsciously." a)they taunt her as she walks down the street, calling her ugly names. b)they throw things at her as she passes them. c)they tease pearl for being an illegitimate child. d)the mock her scarlet letter, putting fake ones on their own clothes as she passes.