When I began reading next, it started off with Dimmesdale sleeping, an unusual deep sleep. Even now the sleep is suspicious to me because of Roger Chillingworths knowledge of natural herbs, in addition, right after he fell asleep Mr. Chillingworth entered the room and exposed Reverand Dimmesdales heart. There he found something that both shocked and disgusted him, a mark, that the autor doesn't espose to the reader but one can infer that Arthur Dimmesdale is in fact the father of Pearl Prynne.
After this incident, there is a hostility towards Dimmesdale from Chillingworth; I mean I don't blame him I'd be pretty pissed too if a man that had become a friend of mine was in fact the very man that took my wife away from me and sent her into the depths of sin. I can't tell whether or not Dimmesdale is aware of the events that took place while he was asleep of if Chillingworth ever confronted him on the subject.

The next Chapter, 'the interior of the heart,' deals a lot with Dimmesdale and his greif and guilt or what he did. He continuely talks about how he wishes he had the strength to get up at his pulpit and scream his sin out to the congregation but even when he says to them that he is not perfect and has many of his own sins to account for, all they do is praise him the more for if a soul as white as his is guilty then they must be terrible in the sight of God. They worship the ground he walks on, which makes him even sicker.