Goodman Brown stays by himself after his companion and has left when he hears other two voices that he recognizes. Hawthorne states, “... that he recognized the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin, jogging along quietly…” (225). In brief, Goodman Brown hears the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin. They had a conversation about a meeting they are going to and it sounds like it is going to be some type of a religious meeting, “‘I had rather miss an ordination-dinner than tonight’s meeting... Several of the Indians powwows, who, after their fashion, know almost as much deviltry as the best of us... There is a goodly young woman to be taken into communion’” (225). In short, they are going to a meeting and a lot of people going to be
