To which aspect of setting does the phrase
"certain summer morning" apply?
The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane,
on a certain summer morning, not less than
two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty
large number of the inhabitants of Boston; all
with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-
clamped oaken door.
- The Scarlet Letter,
Nathaniel Hawthorne
historical
geographical
physical