Act 1, Scene 2
Abigail and Mercy talk. Abigail tries to get Betty to move and talk, but Betty remains still and mute. Mary Warren enters and talks with the girls over what they should do. They're worried that they are going to get into trouble with the town. Betty whimpers and Abigail goes over to her.
Betty gets hysterical and she says that Abigail drank blood to kill Goody Proctor. Abby tells Betty to shut up and Abby threatens the girls. She says that if they open their mouths and tell about what they did last night, then she will make something awful happen to them: "'I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you . . .. I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!'" Act 1, Scene 2, pg. 19
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