They meet in the forest. Chillingworth is gathering herbs and plants for his medicine/poison.
Hester meets up with Chillingworth in the prison where she is being held for her public shaming. Chillingworth arrives in the colony and poses as a doctor in order to gain access to Hester and extract information about her relationship with Dimmesdale.
Hester an Chillingworth were married.
Hester's husband
When Hester meets Roger Chillingworth on the peninsula, she tells him that she is going to make Reverend Dimmesdale aware of Chillingworth's true identity (Roger Prynne - Hester's former husband.)Hester says to Roger Chillingworth "I must reveal the secret. He [Arthur Dimmesdale] must discern thy true character, to discuss this matter with him, told him to be there for that discussion.
To get him to admit that he slept with Hester.
Chillingworth was gone for about two years before Hester cheated on him with Dimmesdale.
If I'm not mistaken, Hester did not meet Chillingworth in the forest. She met him in the prison and on a beach (I believe). During the first interaction, he asked her to pretend she didn't know him. During the second, she asked him to stop torturing Dimmesdale.
Roger Chillingworth is physician & Hester Prynne's husband.
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The antagonist in "The Scarlet Letter" is seen as Roger Chillingworth, Hester Prynne's vengeful and manipulative husband. Chillingworth's obsession with seeking revenge on Hester's lover, Reverend Dimmesdale, drives much of the conflict in the novel.
In the story, he is the estranged husband of Hester Prynne, who reappears under the assumed name Roger Chillingworth, and proceeds to plot against Hester.
Roger Chillingworth asks Hester to keep the secret that he is her husband and that he is seeking revenge on the man who had an affair with her.
Hester Prynne marries Roger Chillingworth out of need, not love. Hester was poor and the sound of a future with someone rich sounded much more promising than her current life. Hester may have believed that they could fall in love one day, and they might have. Chillingworth's was so busy with work he had no time for Hester.