Sometimes I wake and find myself standing in the opendoorway and not a stitch on my body! I always hear herlaughing in my sleep. I hear her singing her Barbados songs andtempting me with—
Hale
Tituba, I want you to wake this child.
Tituba
Mister Reverend. I never—
Abigail
Act 1, page 592
Parris
Hale
Cheever
The girl, the Williams girl, AbigailWilliams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s housetonight, and without word nor warnin’ she falls to the floor. Likea struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull wouldweep to hear. And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches inthe flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demandin’ ofher how she come to be so stabbed, she—to proctor now—testifyit were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in.
Why, she done it herself! -To hale- I hope you’re nottakin’ this for proof, Mister!
Elizabeth
Act 2, page 619
Proctor
Proctor
Abigail: I have been hurt, Mr. Danforth; I have seen my bloodrunnin’ out! I have been near to murdered every day because Idone my duty pointing out the Devil’s people—and this is myreward? To be mistrusted, denied, questioned like a—