The Scarlet Letter

A what moment in the past does the physician say he might "have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter"?

Chapter's 1-4 reading guide

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From the moment they married;

"Nay, from the moment when we came down the old church-steps together, a married pair, I might have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!"

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The Scarlet Letter/ Chapter 4