Answer:
Option B. When we hide from our problems, they eventually catch up to us.
Explanation:
The fact that Hester decided to hide the identity of her out-of-wedlock child's father caused the latter to later return under a concealed identity to make an assumption that would cause him to fall in a desire for revenge.
Had Hester made the identity of her child's father public would have caused the father to eventually find, by the spreading voice of the people, that he is in fact a parent, and wouldn't have had reason to believe otherwise -- ending up seeking another man's suffering.
This is proof that one's secrets can potentially come back in a harming fashion.
