HATHORNE
Do you think
She is bewitched?
MARTHA
Indeed I do not think so.
I am no Witch, and have no faith in Witches.
HATHORNE
Then answer me: When certain persons came
To see you yesterday, how did you know
Beforehand why they came?
MARTHA
I had had speech;
The children said I hurt them, and I thought
These people came to question me about it.
HATHORNE
How did you know the children had been told
To note the clothes you wore?
MARTHA
My husband told me
What others said about it.
HATHORNE
Goodman Corey,
Say, did you tell her?
COREY
I must speak the truth;
I did not tell her. It was some one else.
HATHORNE
Did you not say your husband told you so?
How dare you tell a lie in this assembly?
Who told you of the clothes? Confess the truth.
MARTHA bites her lips, and is silent.