What is significant about mistress hubbins' remarks to hester and pearl

Mistress Hibbins comes up to Hester and tells her that she knows Dimmesdale and Hester met in the woods. She indicates that she knows about Dimmesdale having received the badge of sin and knows that he is hiding it. She then says that the Black Man has "a way of ordering matters so that the mark shall be disclosed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world."

The equal protection clause, is part of the 14th amendment to the united states constitution,the clause, which took effect in 1868 provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the lawthe equal protection clause states that citizens are protected equally under the law