When Elizabeth Proctor says, "Oh, the noose, the noose is up!" she says it in response to Mary Warren's admission that her name was "mentioned" in court. Mary will not tell who began to accuse Elizabeth of sending "[her] spirit out to hurt" them, but Elizabeth guesses that it was Abigail Williams, the girl she dismissed seven months earlier for having an affair with John, Elizabeth's husband. What she means is that Abigail wants her dead...
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