The answer is b).
We all know that she is a woman, she doesn't actually need an answer back from the audience, she is just stating a point.
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I believe the answer would be C. A Saint.
From the book "The Scarlet Letter"
This learned stranger was exemplary, as regarded at least the outward forms of a religious life, and, early after his arrival, had chosen for his spiritual guide the Reverend Mr.Dimmesdale. The young divine, whose scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less as a heaven-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith.
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Answer:
Protection from the suitors! ;)
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