This happens in Act 3, during the ever-increasingly tense confrontation between Proctor, judge Danforth, Hale and Abigail outside the court. Hale, having iniitially supported the court, is by this time increasingly beset by doubts about the whole affair. He is now suspicious of the girls' claims of witchcraft and, like Proctor, he is beginning to realize that these accusations are based on private feuds and disputes rather than on supernatural...
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