“Never!” replied Hester Prynne, looking, not at Mr. Wilson, but into the deep and troubled eyes of the younger clergyman. “It is too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off. And would that I might endure his agony, as well as mine!”

Think about Hester Prynne as a character. Is this quotation an example of direct or indirect revelation?
✔ indirect
What element of this passage helps you infer some of Hester’s character traits?