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
Chapter's 1-4 reading guide
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!"
The Scarlet Letter/ Chapter 4