The answer is B. <span>He wishes to stand where Hester stood to atone for his own sins under the cover of darkness.
At first, atone for his own sins, he torture himslef with physical pain, such as whipping his own body. During one of the vigils he seized an idea to hold the vigil and </span><span>stand where Hester stood where hester suffered for ther sin years before.</span>
This is an opinion question, which means there is no wrong answer. Answer it however you would like.
I would say they are more believable if whoever has created the fake story hasn’t included any outrageous and nonrealistic details, since true stories are sometime so unbelievable because of the randomness of them.
The dialogue shows that Furtunato thinks Montrsor is playing a joke on him.