“‘Confess, if you be guilty.’
“‘I will say it, if it was my last time: I am clear of this sin.’
“‘Of what sin?’
“‘Of witchcraft.’
“(To the children.) ‘Are you certain this is the woman?’
“Never a one could speak for fits.
“By and by, Ann Putnam said that was the woman: it was like her; ‘and she told me her name.’
“(The court.) ‘It is marvelous to me that you should sometimes think they are bewitched and sometimes not, when several confess that they have been guilty of bewitching them.’
“‘Well, sir, would you have me confess what I never knew?’
“Her hands were clenched together, and then the hands of Mercy Lewis were clenched.