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- 1. Danforth, reaches out and holds her face, then: Look at me! To yourown knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime oflechery? In a crisis of indecision she cannot speak. Answer myquestion! Is your husband a lecher!
- 2. Elizabeth, faintly: No, sir.
- 3. Proctor: Elizabeth, tell the truth!
- 3. Danforth: Then explain to me. Mr. Proctor, why you will notlet—
- 1. Danforth: Why? Do you mean to deny this confession when youare free?
- 4. Proctor, with a cry of his whole soul: Because it is my name!Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and signmyself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet ofthem that hang! How may I live without my name? I have givenyou my soul; leave me my name!
- 2. Proctor: I mean to deny nothing!
- 1.Abigail, pulling her away from the window: I told him everything,he knows now, he knows everything we—
- Abigail: Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Titubaconjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And marthis. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word,about the other things, and I will come to you in the black ofsome terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that willshudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smashmy dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine, and l haveseen some reddish work done at night, and l can make you wishyou had never seen the sun go down! She goes to BETTY androughly sits her up. Now, you—sit up and stop this!
- 3. Abigail: Betty, you never say that again! You will never—
- 2. Betty: You drank blood, Abby! You didn’t tell him that!
- 4. Betty: You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill JohnProctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!
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