Roger Chillingworth becomes the friend and personal physician of Arthur Dimmesdale, whose health continues to decline. Dimmesdale suspects no evil from Chillingworth, whose aspects turns from scholarly to scheming.
One day, Chillingworth comes to Dimmesdale with herbs that have very dark, flabby leaves on them. Dimmesdale asks him where he found them at, and Chillingworth tells him that he found them growing on a grave, probably a sinner's grave. He goes on about how the person burried there must be having a horrible afterlife on behalf of him keeping a dark secret during his life on Earth. Dimmesdale argues back saying that the sinner probably had a good reason for keeping his secret a secret, and that it was probably better for others as well. They begin to go back and forth arguing and Chillingworth begins to use his imagination. He sees that Dimmesdale keeps holding his chest and fighting for the rights of a sinner.
That evening, Dimmesdale falls into a deep sleep and Chillingworth decides to take an action. He lifts Dimmesdale's shirt and can't believe what he sees. "Had a man seen old Roger Chillingworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have had no need to ask how Satan comports himself when a precious human soul is lost to heaven, and won into his kingdom."
One day, Chillingworth comes to Dimmesdale with herbs that have very dark, flabby leaves on them. Dimmesdale asks him where he found them at, and Chillingworth tells him that he found them growing on a grave, probably a sinner's grave. He goes on about how the person burried there must be having a horrible afterlife on behalf of him keeping a dark secret during his life on Earth. Dimmesdale argues back saying that the sinner probably had a good reason for keeping his secret a secret, and that it was probably better for others as well. They begin to go back and forth arguing and Chillingworth begins to use his imagination. He sees that Dimmesdale keeps holding his chest and fighting for the rights of a sinner.
That evening, Dimmesdale falls into a deep sleep and Chillingworth decides to take an action. He lifts Dimmesdale's shirt and can't believe what he sees. "Had a man seen old Roger Chillingworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have had no need to ask how Satan comports himself when a precious human soul is lost to heaven, and won into his kingdom."
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