Entry 36:
"Forth, peeped at her, out of the pool, with dark, glistening curls around her head, and an elf-smile in her eyes, the imagine of a little maid, whom Pearl, having no other playmate, invited to take her hand and run and race with her."
Pearl again, is part of nature, where she believes nature is pleasant and good. She's compared back to being an elf with dark shiny curls. She's outside the town's rules, and can dance, run, and play unlike any child in the society. She can't have someone to play with in these circumstances so instead, she believes she sees someone else in the water, when it is just herself. Her mother, regardless of what people may think of her now are still under the constraints of laws. Pearl is more asking nature to play with her since that is already free and wild.
Can you go further with the nature connection? This is basically correct. But what does it mean beyond her being outside society and free?
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