-Dimmesdale feels like his moving away with Hester is him giving himself purely to temptation, but claims that it would be the only way he would be truly happy. He also asks God for forgiveness.
--“‘If, in all these past seven years,’ thought he, ‘I could recall one instant of peace or hope, I would yet endure for the sake of that earnest of Heaven's mercy. But now, - since I am irrevocably doomed, - wherefore should I not snatch the solace allowed to the condemned culprit before his execution? Or, if this be the path to a better life, as Hester would persuade me, I surely give up no fairer prospect by pursuing it! Neither can I any longer live without her companionship; so powerful is she to sustain, - so tender to soothe! O Thou to whom I dare not lift mine eyes, wilt Thou yet pardon me!’”(181)
-Dimmesdale is confident that his new life would be for the better.
--“‘Do I feel joy again?’ cried he, wondering at himself. ‘Methought the germ of it was dead in me! O Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself - sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened - down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful! This is already the better life! Why did we not find it sooner?’’(182)
-Hester removes the scarlet letter and throws it off into the distance, also telling Dimmesdale to forget his dark past.
--“‘Let us not look back,’ answered Hester Prynne. ‘The past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now? See! With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it as it had never been!’”(182)
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