Unrest fills the Proctor house as Proctor returns home to find Elizabeth in the kitchen.
ELIZABETH: Did you go to Salem today? Mary Warren is there.
PROCTOR: I forbid her to. Why is she there?
ELIZABETH: She said she must go to Salem. She says she is to go to court. Fourteen people are in jail and are waiting to be tried. The town has gone mad. They promise hangings of those that will not confess.
Mary Warren arrives and enters the room.
PROCTOR: I told you not to leave this house.
MARY WARREN: Do not harm me. I am unwell. I spent all day in court. Goody Proctor, I sewed you a doll today. I have to rest now.
PROCTOR: Is it true about the fourteen arrested?
MARY WARREN: There are now thirty-nine in jail. Goody Osborn is to hang, but not Sarah Good. She confessed after sending her spirit to choke us in the court. She lied about knowing the commandments. They will not hurt her though; she is pregnant. They accused you, Goody Proctor. I told them it is not true. Goodnight.
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ELIZABETH: Abigail wants to see me dead! They dismissed it today, but what of the next time she cries out. She wants me gone to take my place.
PROCTOR: It is not true.
Hale enters the house.
HALE: Good evening. I do not come on behalf of the court, but your wife's name was mentioned in today's proceedings. I noticed you are rarely in church, and one of your boys is not baptized.
PROCTOR: I am a good Christian. I do not see God in Mr. Parris. I do not wish for him to lay his hands on my child.
ELIZABETH: Perhaps we have been too tough on Mr. Parris, but no one loves the Devil in this house.
PROCTOR: Between us both, we know all our commandments. I cannot prove it with anything but my word, but I am sure that witchcraft is not causing the sickness. Abigail Williams told me they were only frightened by Mr. Parris in the woods.
HALE: Will you testify in court?
PROCTOR: I wished not to go, but I will if need be.
Giles and Francis enter the