It was now deep dusk in the forest and deepest in that part of it where these two were journeying ... the second traveler was about fifty years old apparently in the same rank of life as goodman brown and bearing a considerable resemblance to him ... and yet... he had an indescribable air of one who knew the world ... but the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff which bore the likeness of a great black snake so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent. what mood is established by the setting especially by the setting especially in the use of words such as deep dusk and black answers should be at least 125 words long.