Which quotation from the text best reveals the relationship Parson Hooper had with his community before the veil?
O "Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minster
as his black veil to them."
O "Our parson has gone mad!' cried Goodman Gray, following him across the
threshold"
O "Arumor of some unaccountable phenomenon had preceded Mr. Hooper into the
meeting-house and set all the congregation astir."
"With this gloomy shade before him good Mr. Hooper walked onward at a slow and
quiet pace, stooping somewhat and looking on the ground, as is customary with
abstracted men, yet nodding kindly to those of his parishioners who still waited on
the meeting-house steps."