Answer: Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter spends years not revealing the name of the father of her illegitimate daughter. She leaves him to make up his own mind, and the consequences of both their decisions form the basis of the whole novel, and the ethical debates that run through it.
I don't know if I would agree or disagree. What do you think?
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I'd choose dark, inaccessible, and comfortless. The other words don't really pin down the tone ("draperies"? "General"?).