The Crucible: Abigail

Child? How do you call me child! You never gave me hope to wait for you?... You come five miles to see a silly girl fly? I know you better. I have something better than hope, I think! I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near! Or did I dream that?

(angrily) It's your wife who put me out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now!

A wild thing may say wild things, but not so wild I think. I have seen you since she put me out; I have seen you nights. I have a sense for heat, John, and yours has drawn me to my window, and I have seen you looking up, burning in your loneliness.(pause) Do you tell me you've never looked up my window? And you must, you are no wintry man. I know you John, I know you

(weeping) I cannot sleep for dreamin' ;I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through some door...(in tears) I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! (he turns abruptly to go out, she rushes to him) John, pity me!