Hester felt that the sacrifice of the clergyman's good name, and death itself, as she had already told Roger Chillingworth, would have been infinitely preferable to the alternative, which she had taken upon herself to choose.
海丝特觉得,正如她最近对罗 - 齐灵渥斯所说,牺牲掉牧师的好名声,甚至让他死掉,都比她原先所选择的途径要强得多。