- Mistress Hibbins: I am wrongly accused! Never hath my tongue been given to gossip!
- The Governor: Falsehood! Her tongue hath wagged like the tail of a dog! Duck her again!
- Title Card: Here is recorded a stark episode in the lives of a stern, unforgiving people, a story of bigotry uncurbed and its train of sorrow, shame and tragedy...
- The Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale: Hester Prynne, thou hast profaned God's holy day! Take heed, therefore! If ye sin, ye must pay - there is no escape!
- Hester Prynne: I have told thee my thoughts - thou dost say they are sinful - but, why? Why are we taught to be ashamed - of love?
- Giles: Breathe it not to a soul - the Governor is an old nincompoop! - and the Beadle is a parrot in petticoats!
- Title Card: On the morrow - Election Day - the one day in the Puritans' year when gaiety was not an offense.