The passage that I'm using goes from page 114 to 116 that starts, "I found them growing on a grave..." and ends, "He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament." I enjoy this scene because Chillingworth is just backing Dimmesdale into a phsycological corner. Not to mention the irony that Dimmesdale exudes. Earlier in the book, when he's telling Hester to tell everyone who her lover is, he says that it would be better for her fellow sinner to stand beside her than to keep his sin hidden in his heart for the rest of his life. Now in this passage, he says that a heart guilty of sin, should hold on to it's secrets until the person's last day, or judgement day before God. This conversation also causes Dimmesdale physical pain; such as when Chillingworth asks why sinners don't just tell others sooner, instead of waiting for the judgement day. Dimmesdale says that many do confess their sins while they are "strong in life, and fair in reputation" and while he is talking, he clutches his heart as if it was laced with pain. At the end of the passage, it says that he had ways to dodge a topic that he wasn't comfortable with, and he did that in the very next line by asking after his health. From the wording that Dimmesdale buries himself with, it's pretty obvious that the minister himself is the secret lover of Hester Prynne. That's another thing that I love about this passage; it's so incredibly revealing on the subject of who Hester's lover is.