In Act Two, when Mary Warren returns home to the Proctors' house, the primary reason for the tension between John and Mary is that he had forbidden her to go into Salem. She had disobeyed his order, as well as his wife's, and gone to town anyway. As Elizabeth explains, Mary Warren is no longer like a mouse; "she raises up her chin like the daughter of a prince and says [...], 'I must go to Salem, Good Proctor; I am an official of the...
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