Mary Warren returns from the Salem court and describes the physical sensations of hysteria she experienced while accusing Sarah Good. She explains how the court trapped the old woman by forcing her to recite the Ten Commandments.
MARY WARREN: I never knew it before. I never knew anything before. When she come into the court I say to myself, I must not accuse this woman, for she sleeps in ditches, and so very old and poor. But then - then she sit there, denying and denying, and I feel a misty coldness climbin' up my back, and
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