Even before Elizabeth Proctor's arrest in Act Two, John has her fetch Mary Warren so that Mary can tell Ezekiel Cheever, the man who has come to arrest Elizabeth, that she had just made and given the poppet to Elizabeth that very evening. When told about what happened to Abigail -- that she had a needle pushed into her stomach and she said that Elizabeth's spirit did it -- he exclaims, "Why, she done it herself!" John asks Mary to confirm...
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