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One final though concerning this story is, what was the sin the minister committed in the first place? On the first day Mr. Hooper wears the veil, he presides over the funeral of a young woman. “… to take a last farewell of his deceased parishioner. As he stooped, the veil hung straight down from his forehead, so that if her eyelids had not been closed forever, the dead maiden might have seen her face…. At the instant the clergyman’s features were disclosed, the corpse has slightly shuddered”. The dead girl reacted to the minister’s face. Of all of the people who would see the minister’s face after he veiled it. It was this dead girl. After the funeral one of the town’s persons remarked; “I had a fancy that the minister and the maiden’s spirit were walking hand in hand”. Somehow the minister and the girl had a connection that overcame even death. The last point is that Mr. Hooper refused to tell his wife the reason for the veil even when she threatened to leave him. He could have stopped her but instead he let her leave. All of the facts could suggest that Mr. Hooper had an affair with the Girl who just died. Considering that the author is Nathaniel Hawthorn, it is a plausible assumption.