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- "Oh, my God! God help me!. Betty. Child. Dear Child. Will you wake, will you open up your eyes! Betty, Little one" (Miller 48)
- "There be no unnatural cases here. I discovered my own daughter and niece dancing like heathen in the forest?" (Miller 49-50)
- "Speak nothing of it in the village, Susanna." (Miller 47)
- "Doctor Griggs can't find no medicine for it in his books. You might look to unnatural things for the cause of it" (Miller 49)
- "your Ruth is sick as well?, How does Ruth ail?" (Miller 52)
- She ails as she must-she never waked this morning, but her eyes open and she walks, and hears naught, sees naught, and cannot eat. Her soul is taken, surley. (Miller 52)
- I was living in Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1692. Reverend Parris had bent down on my knees next to my ten-year-old cousin, Betty Paris, as I walked in. He looked to be praying for Betty in the hopes of waking her up, since she hadn't woken up since the incident the night before.
- I'll lead them in a psalm, but let you say nothing of witchcraft yet. (Miller 57)
- "Come down, speak to them-pray with them. They're thirsting for your word, Mister! (Miller 57)
- "Your pardons. I only thought to see how Betty is" (Miller 56)
- I was seventeen-year-old Abigail Williams. My friend Susanna Walcott, who is younger than me, steps in as I stand at the entrance of my Uncle Paris' bedroom. They claim Betty was cursed for unknown reasons, and that Paris had spotted us dancing in the woods, and that we were conjuring spirits, which is why Betty is in bed.
- "Now look all. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. That is all. Let either of you breathe a word, I will shudder you. " (Miller 60)
- "You drank blood, Abby! You didn't tell him that. You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody proctor!" (Miller 60)
- "What's got her? Abby, she's going to die! It's a sin to conjure, and we-" (Miller 60)
- The room is entered by Mrs. Ann Putnam. She is a forties-year-old lady who is beginning to show signs of aging. Mr. Putnam, her husband, also enters. Ruth, one of my friends and the Putnams child, had been sick since previous night, and she had spent the night in the forest with me and a few other girls. Betty and Ruth aren't apart of witchcraft, but they were involved in some conjuring last night, and if the truth came out, we'd all be hanged.
- "I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through some door. How do you call me child!" (Miller 65)
- "Child-. Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But will cut my hand off before I'll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of my mind.
- Mercy Lewis, someone else who was involved last night, and the Putnams' servant, who should be keeping an eye on Ruth while she is ill, step in. Mr. Putnam urges Paris to talk to the people, and he must go down and speak to the people of the village about this "witchcraft" but he may ruin his reputation more by doing this.
- Everyone has departed, leaving only me, Betty, and Mercy in the room. Mary enters; she, too, is seventeen and was in the woods with us the night before. Betty starts making sounds, and I start shaking her. She's acting strangely, and nothing that happened last night or even now should be spoken to anyone. I make sure that all of the girls understand how to lie and that we should never tell the truth since it would result in us being hung, I make sure to threaten them enough. Betty collapses.
- Mercy and Mary both leave when John Proctor arrives. I'm alone with John, with whom I had an affair until his wife, Elizabeth, fired me a few months ago from my housekeeping job. He won't go any farther and refers to me as a "child." I want his wife dead, so I summon the spirits to help me in reclaiming what is rightfully mine. I'll make it happen even if he doesn't want to be with me anymore. Following the psalms lines "going up to Jesus," John hears Betty's whining and singing.
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