Answer: The sea captain tells Hester that Chillingworth will also board the ship to Bristol.
Explanation:
In the book, "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a woman named Hester is tried for adultery because she had a child yet her husband had not arrived in Boston yet. The husband actually did make it and called himself Chillingworth.
Hester and the father of her child, Dimmesdale, plan to escape Boston and when Chillingworth head about this he bought a ticket on the same ship to Bristol. This set the stage for the climax with Dimmesdale confessing his crime of adultery and dying.
