She first tried to persuade Hester to join the witches by coming to the black man's meeting in the woods. Mistress Hibbins knew about the bad circumstances and knew that Hester was on the verge of not caring enough to sign her name in the black man's book. Hester even wrote back to him saying that she would have "willingly gone with you [Hibbins] into the forest and signed my name [Hester] in the black man's book." (p. 119) She also frightened Pearl by telling her how her mother had come and already signed her name to the point that Pearl asked her mother, who admitted it and did not know that Mistress Hibbins had filled out her name. spirit of it all. bad thoughts. And she, too, knew of his meeting in the woods with Dimmesdale, and made a comment to him the next day in town, saying: "'So, reverend sir, you have made a visit to the forest,' observed the lady witch." (p..