" What a strange, sad man is he!""said the child as if speaking partly to herself."In the dark night-time, he calls us to him. and holds thy hand and mine, as when we stood on with him on the scaffold yonder!......."
What this is saying is that Pearl is putting together the pieces of the puzzel to why Dimmesdale wont be seen with them in public but in the woods he has a different personality. Dimmesdale will claim them as his family when it is dark and no one can see them.
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