Is Goodman Brown surprised to encounter the second traveler on the road, or does he seem to expect him? What is the fact that the stranger bears a...

It's difficult
to know ... I think just about everything he saw or thinks he saw in the woods that night
surprised him.  Something he says at the end, however, shows wonder, if not surprise:

"That old woman taught me my catechism," said the young
man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.

He finds it incomprehensible that the woman who taught him his...