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!