MARTHA.
Giles, what is the matter?
You frighten me.
COREY.
I say if any man
Can have a Devil in him, then that man
Is Proctor,—is John Proctor, and no other!
MARTHA. Why, what has he been doing?
COREY.
Everything!
What do you think I heard there in the village?
MARTHA. I'm sure I cannot guess. What did you hear?
COREY. He says I burned his house!
MARTHA.
Does he say that?
COREY. He says I burned his house. I was in bed And fast asleep that night; and I can prove it.
MARTHA. If he says that, I think the Father of Lies Is surely in the man.
COREY.
He does say that
And that I did it to wreak vengeance on him
For taking sides against me in the quarrel
I had with that John Gloyd about his wages.
And God knows that I never bore him malice
For that, as I have told him twenty times