"She cheered up the serious crowd with the odd, glistening light of her presence, just as a brightly colored bird lights up a dark tree by darting back and forth among the darkly clustered leaves. She moved in a constantly changing, sometimes sharp manner that expressed the restless liveliness of her spirit. Never satisfied with the predictable or conventional, her spirit today was doubly excited by her mother’s uneasiness, which it sensed and responded to." - The Scarlet Letter