Dorcas!
DORCAS
(importantly).
Aye, since yesternight she hath clean disappeared. The evening meal was set: she did not come. They have searched the woods, and the marshland, and the roadways. 'Tis plain she hath been spirited away, and Goodwife Abigail Williams is nigh out of her mind. But now that they've found the witch——
TABITHA
(eagerly).
Found her——
DORCAS
(triumphantly).
Aye, found her! And you'll never guess who 'tis! Hark! They're coming! She was hobbling this way as I passed, little dreaming that her evil deeds would find her out so soon! The half o' Salem must be at her heels. Look! Look!
GOODY GURTON'S VOICE
(from left, a cry of terror).
I am no witch. Good sirs, I am no witch. Mercy! Mercy!
RENOUNCE
(startled).