Confronting Abigail in court requires more than just Proctor telling what she told him earlier about the girls not really being afflicted by witchcraft ("She’s only gone silly, somehow. She’ll come out of it"). He knows that once he admits this to the court they will want to know how he came to know this. Why would a young girl confide this in an older, married man? He will have to admit that he had an affair with Abigail. While...
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