John Proctor shouts out this accusation in a fit of rage when Ezekiel Cheever and Marshall Herrick come to arrest his wife, Elizabeth, on a charge of witchcraft. Elizabeth had been accused by their former servant, Abigail Williams, whom Elizabeth had previously dismissed from service. Abigail and John Proctor had been involved in an affair and Elizabeth suspected the relationship. Proctor remarks that "vengeance is walking Salem" and that...
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