Act 2 49-55

Question 1

ACT 2

Answer 1

What keeps you so late? It’s almost dark.

Question 2

I were planting far out to the forest edge.

Answer 2

Oh, you’re done then

Question 3

Aye, the farm is seeded. The boys asleep?

Answer 3

They will be soon.

Question 4

Praying now for a fair summer

Answer 4

Aye

Question 5

Are you well today?

Answer 5

I am. It is a rabbit.

Question 6

Oh is it! In Jonathan’s trap?

Answer 6

No she walked into the house this afternoon. I found her sittin’ in the corner like she come to visit

Question 7

Oh, that’s a good sign walking in

Answer 7

Pray God. It hurt my heart to strip her, poor rabbit

Question 8

It’s well seasoned

Answer 8

I took great care. She’s tender?

Question 9

I think we’ll see field greens soon.

Answer 9

That’s well

Question 10

How would that please you?

Answer 10

Aye it would

Question 11

I mean to please you Elizabeth

Answer 11

I know it John

Question 12

Cider?

Answer 12

Aye!

Question 13

The farm is a continent when you go foot by foot dropping seeds

Answer 13

It must be

Question 14

You ought to bring some flowers in the house

Answer 14

Oh I forgot I will tomorrow

Question 15

Lilac is the smell of nightfall I think. Massachusetts is a beauty in the spring

Answer 15

Aye it is

Question 16

I think you’re sad again. Are you?

Answer 16

You come so late I thought you’d gone to Salem this afternoon

Question 17

Why? I have no business in Salem

Answer 17

You did speak of going, earlier this week

Question 18

I thought better of it since

Answer 18

Mary Warren’s there today

Question 19

Why do you let her? You heard me forbid her to go to Salem anymore

Answer 19

I couldn’t stop her

Question 20

….Elizabeth you are the mistress here, not Mary Warren

Answer 20

She frightened all my strength away

Question 21

How may that mouse frighten you Elizabeth? You –

Answer 21

It is a mouse no more. I forbid her go and she raises up her chin like the daughter of a prince and says to me “I must go to Salem, Goody Proctor. I am an official of the court”

Question 22

Court! What court?

Answer 22

Aye, It is a proper court they have now. They’ve sent for judges out of Boston, she says, weighty magistrates of the general court and at the head sits the deputy governor of the Providence

Question 23

Why, she’s mad.

Answer 23

I would to god she were. There be 14 people in jail now. And they’ll be tried and the court have power to hang them too

Question 24

Ah they’d never hang

Answer 24

The deputy governor promise hangin if they’ll not confess, John. The town’s gone wild I think. She speak of Abigail and I thought she were a saint, to hear her. Abigail brings the other girls into the court and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel. And folks are brought before them, And if they scream and howl and fall to the floor – the persons clapped in the jail for bewitchin’ them.

Question 25

Oh it is a black mischief

Answer 25

I think you must go to Salem, John. I think so. You must tell them it is a fraud

Question 26

Aye, it is, it is surely

Answer 26

Let you go to Ezekiel Cheever – he knows you well. And tell him what she said to you last week at her uncles house. She said it had naught to do with witchcraft, did she not?

Question 27

Aye, she did, she did

Answer 27

God forbid you keep that from the court, John. I think they must be told

Question 28

Aye, they must, they must. It is a wonder they do believe her.

Answer 28

I would go to Salem now, John – let you go tonight

Question 29

I’ll think on it

Answer 29

You cannot keep it, John

Question 30

I know I cannot keep it. I Say I will think on it

Answer 30

Good, then, let you think on it

Question 31

....She told it to me in a room alone – I have no proof for it.

Answer 31

You were alone with her?

Question 32

For a moment alone, Aye

Answer 32

Why, then, it is not as you told me

Question 33

For a moment I say. The others come in soon after

Answer 33

Do as you wish then

Question 34

Woman. I will not have your suspicion anymore

Answer 34

I have no-

Question 35

I’ll not have it!

Answer 35

Then let you not earn it

Question 36

You doubt me yet?

Answer 36

John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt would you falter now? I think not

Question 37

No look you –

Answer 37

I see what I see, John

Question 38

.......Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore. I have forgot Abigail and

Answer 38

And I

Question 39

.....I cannot speak but I am doubted every moment judge for lies as though I come into a court when I come into this house

Answer 39

John, you are not open with me. You saw her with a crowd you said. Now you –

Question 40

I’ll plead my honesty no more, Elizabeth

Answer 40

John I am only –

Question 41

.....But you’re not and let you remember it. Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not

Answer 41

I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John – only somewhat bewildered