Entry 48
"Now she fixed her bright, wild eyes on her mother, now on the minister, and now included them both in the same glance; as if to detect and explain to herself the relation which they bore to one another."..."Pearl stretched out her hand, with the small forefinger extended, and pointing evidently towards her mother’s breast. "
Pearl didn't want to cross the brook because her mother had taken off the A, and to Pearl, Hester wasn't her mother without it. When her mother took off the A, it was like getting rid of their sin, and what bonded them both together was Pearl who symbolizes their sin. Once the A is gone, Dimmesdale is happy, but Hester and him both connect. It was like throwing Pearl away, and so she started to feel discluded.
She's the elf that can't cross the water, and if her mother is without the 'A' she'd much rather stay with 'mother nature' who will except her.
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