Abigail claims that John is too strong to love a weak wife like Elizabeth Proctor “You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is you love me yet!”.Abigail recalls their affair and claims to still love John John claims that he may think of her from time to time but will never touch her again.
After some initial flirting, John is resistant to Abigail’s exultations.The rest of the girls leave so he can be alone with Abigail.
John Proctor enters to find out what the trouble is.Abigail threatens the girls with death if they tell more than they danced in the forest.Abigail drank blood as a way to kill Goody Proctor.Mary and Mercy plead with Abigail about what they should do for the witchcraft charges.Parris worries how Betty’s illness will effect his preaching career.Ann Putnam blames witchcraft for the loss of seven stillborn children.Ann says she sent her to Tituba so she could talk to the spirits of her dead children, now she is dumb struck.Parris notes that Ann’s daughter, Ruth is also sick.Ann Putnam accuses Betty of witchcraft, claiming she saw her fly over a barn.Parris questions Abigail about Tituba waving her arms over their dancing, someone running naked in the forest, and why Goody Proctor fired her, causing the rest of the village to spurn her.Parris points out that there is a faction of people who want him out of the church (not all people in Salem are Puritans and not all Puritans approve of Parris).(Remember that the Puritans view the forest as a place of untold evils.) He questions Abigail about what they were doing in the forest.This is what sent Betty into her cataleptic state Samuel Parris, the town’s reverend, found the girls dancing in the forest.Betty Parris is stricken with a disease that Dr.Mary Warren- She is seventeen, a subservient, naïve, lonely girl.Thomas Putnam- “a well-to-do, hard-handed landowner near fifty” who dislikes Reverend Paris.Ann Putnam- “She is a twisted soul of forty-five, a death-ridden woman, haunted by dreams.”.Abigail Williams- Cousin of Betty, currently living with the Parris’s, 17 yrs old.
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