What does Pearl inform her mother in chapter six of The Scarlet Letter?

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"," the little girl asks her mother, , to tell her who sent her into this world.
Hester replies, telling Pearl that her "'Heavenly Father'" sent her. The narrator
says, however, that Hester somewhat hesitates before offering her response, and Pearl picks up
on it.

Whether moved only by [Pearl's] ordinary
freakishness, or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up her small forefinger, and
touched the scarlet letter. "He did not send me!" cried she, positively. "I have
no Heavenly Father!"

Thus, Pearl informs her mother
that she has not been sent to Earth by God, that she has, in fact, no heavenly father at all.
The statement horrifies her mother, and Hester tries to chasten Pearl, to make her understand
Hester's religious beliefs, but Pearl demands a different answer. Hester cannot give her one,
though, because she does not really know herself. Hester feels herself to be "in a dismal
labyrinth of doubt." Some people have suggested that Pearl is a...