Young Goodman Brown and Other Hawthorne Short Stories

What larger meaning might the image have, when two mourners comment that they imagine Mr.Hooper and the deceased young woman walking hand and hand in spirit?

Line 177-181. The minister black veil

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It seems the mourners see the minister as having left them, that he seems as dead in life as the young woman they've just buried.

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The Minister's Black Veil

What does the congregation do to address the problem of the veil