Hester contacts Chillingworth, while he is picking herbs. He immediately relates how a magistrate recently told him that some members of the council wished the scarlet letter to be removed from her person. She replies it is for providence, not magistrates, to do something about the letter. However, she has something she wants to talk to him about.
For many years, she has kept Chillingworth's secret, but now she tells him that Dimmesdale.....
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